End Time City. Michael Ackerman.
EXB Workshop / Editions Xavier Barral| N° d'inventaire | 25087 |
| Format | 27.5 x 23 |
| Détails | 128 p., 75 B&W photographs with a photographic composition in poster form (106 x 42 cm), publisher's cardboard. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782365113144 |
The first publication of End Time City established Michael Ackerman as a major figure in photography. Twenty years later, this new edition, redesigned by the artist, presents a selection of his iconic photographs, enriched with many completely new images, taken during his recent trips to Benares, in 2018 and 2020. This new visual corpus reveals a greater presence of animals in Ackerman's universe. He takes us on a wild stroll through the narrow streets of Benares, the holiest city in Hinduism, which welcomes pilgrims who come to die here to erase their sins and put an end to the cycle of rebirth. Saturated with dust, populated by ghostly presences with intense gazes, Ackerman's photographs restore a world bordering on a waking dream.
This new opus unfolds in a revised format and visual sequences, punctuated by new media, contact sheets, Polaroids, panoramics, leaflets, etc., which restore all the power and singularity of Ackerman's photographic writing.
Christian Caujolle, one of the first to discover this work in 1997 and author of an essay in the original edition of End Time City published in 1999, has written a new text for this new version of the book.
The first publication of End Time City established Michael Ackerman as a major figure in photography. Twenty years later, this new edition, redesigned by the artist, presents a selection of his iconic photographs, enriched with many completely new images, taken during his recent trips to Benares, in 2018 and 2020. This new visual corpus reveals a greater presence of animals in Ackerman's universe. He takes us on a wild stroll through the narrow streets of Benares, the holiest city in Hinduism, which welcomes pilgrims who come to die here to erase their sins and put an end to the cycle of rebirth. Saturated with dust, populated by ghostly presences with intense gazes, Ackerman's photographs restore a world bordering on a waking dream.
This new opus unfolds in a revised format and visual sequences, punctuated by new media, contact sheets, Polaroids, panoramics, leaflets, etc., which restore all the power and singularity of Ackerman's photographic writing.
Christian Caujolle, one of the first to discover this work in 1997 and author of an essay in the original edition of End Time City published in 1999, has written a new text for this new version of the book.