Karakarakas - de la cuarta a la quinta (Signed and numbered, edt of 250)
Paolo Gasparini
Karakarakas - de la cuarta a la quinta (Signed and numbered, edt of 250)
Photographs: Paolo Gasparini
Text: Paolo Gasparini, Sagrario Berti. Quotes from Rafael Cadenas, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Walter Benjamin,...
Publisher: Mal de Ojo Editions
226 pages
Pictures: 131
Year: 2014
Comments: Softcover. 295 x 250 mm. Design by Ricardo Báez. 115 black & white photographs and 16 in color. Text in english and spanish. Limited edition of 250 numbered copies. Signed and numbered. New.
"Karakarakas is a visual narrative with a purposeful thread, whose pieces - photographs, sentences, texts - have been strung together to convey an authorial idea. Karakarakas consists of images as a whole, not of discrete images. A criss-cross group of photographs representing everyday life in public spaces in Caracas, seen from different angles, snapped in any number of places and years (1954-2014). Shot through with articles from the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic (1999), black and white photographs from before, way before Hugo Chavez, alternate with color pictures of present day life in the city, under the so-called "Socialism of the 21st century". Images are displayed in double-page spreads or facing each other, contrasting tonal qualities, past and present, actually underscoring correspondences which still remain alive, sixty years on.
For Paolo Gasparini, a photobook is a "conceptual device", rephrasing Luis Camnitzer's formula, and it is in this context that his approach to political subjects can best be apprehendend. Politics instilled in the photographer's designs become art. Gasparini has adapted the printed medium to the construction of metaphors and representations of social and cultural contradictions in Latin America, the First and Third Worlds of Mexico, in such photobooks as Para verte mejor América Latina (1973), Retromundo (1986) and El Suplicante (2011)." - Sagrario Berty
The graphic design immerses the viewer into the world of Caracas, with full bleed images and text throughout tying them together.
more books by Paolo Gasparini
-
Para verte mejor, américa latina (Signed)
by Paolo Gasparini
sold -
Retromundo (SIGNED)
by Paolo Gasparini
sold -
La Calle 1964-2005 (only 50 copies)
by Paolo Gasparini
sold -
Del reverso de las imágenes (Signed)
by Paolo Gasparini
sold -
La Calle 1964-2005 (only 100 copies Signed)
by Paolo Gasparini
sold -
THE TRUE STORY OF PAOLO GASPARINI (SIGNED)
by Paolo Gasparini
sold -
Andata e ritorno (Signed) (Back in stock!)
by Paolo Gasparini
sold -
Megalopolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, San Paolo
by Paolo Gasparini
sold -
fotollavero mexicano (SIGNED)
by Paolo Gasparini
sold -
Da Gorizia alle Ande + PRINT (ONLY ON ORDER)
by Paolo Gasparini
sold
more books tagged »latin american« | >> see all
-
A João Guimarães Rosa
by Maureen Bisilliat
sold -
Ritos Mortuorios (ONLY 100 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Rafael Salvatore
Euro 20 -
Una casa en la arena
by Sergio Larrain
sold -
La Ciudad de Mexico III
by Nacho Lopez
sold -
OPTICA
by Xavier Meade
Euro 1500 -
Dictado por la jauria (Signed and dedicated)
by Juan Calzadilla
sold
more books tagged »self published« | >> see all
-
ANTINANTI #9 door
by Marc van Elburg
sold -
Sphère - Shashin ni yoru shishu (Poem collection by photographs)
by Takeo Takei
sold -
Scene A (Signed copy)
by Daisuke Yokota
sold -
Zoku, Aru seishun : Teijisei joshi koukousotsugyosei no kiroku...
by Manabu Maruhashi
Euro 150 -
FOUR WEELS TRACES (Signed)
by Sergej Vutuc
sold -
New York City Subway
by Hiroki Tokugawa
sold
more books tagged »design« | >> see all
-
METEOPROGNOZ (FORECAST) (Signed)
by Roman Pyatkovka
sold -
MICTLAN (SPECIAL EDT /100 SIGNED)
by Joan Fontcuberta
sold -
Oscurana
by Antoine d'Agata
sold -
OVER.STATE
by Ilias Georgiadis
Euro 150 -
Marrakech
by Daido Moriyama
sold -
Snowflakes Dog Man (ONLY 69 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Hajime Kimura
sold
more books tagged »Paolo Gasparini« | >> see all
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com