L.A. Vedute
Meyer, Dirk de (Professor), Bart Verschaffel, Pieter-Jan Cierkens • The Eriskay Connection • ISBN Not provided
L.A. Vedute
Meyer, Dirk de (Professor), Bart Verschaffel, Pieter-Jan Cierkens • The Eriskay Connection • ISBN-13 Not provided
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Standing on the property line between two apartment buildings with adjacent driveways, American photographer Thomas Locke Hobbs was reminded of a Renaissance painting, The Ideal City of Urbino, where the illusion of space is achieved when receding lines that establish spatial relationships converge at a central vanishing point. It inspired his book ‘L.A. Vedute’, a documentary study of domestic architecture in Los Angeles. The work presents the way shared spaces recede to a common vanishing point, largely unpopulated and deserted, akin to movie sets where the actors have disappeared. Through metaphors of alienation, Hobbs exposes a city in conflict and coexistence.
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