VARANASI. FREDERIC AMAT

In this beautiful book of toned photographs, Frederic Amat turns his camera skyward to capture the tangled wires clinging to telepho ne poles, street lamps, transformers and power lines strung throughout the city of Varanasi, India. The tiny scraggly wire webs loop ed over and tied onto cables with double knots might be sucking electricity from the municipal power source or they might be legitim ate electric connections, but for the purposes of Amat's book, their most important function is as delicate elements in the complex drawings ...[Read more]