DESERT CITIES

Aglaia Konrad
DESERT CITIES

Photographs: Aglaia Konrad

Text: Eric Denis, Lionel Devlieger, Brigitte Franzen, Miles Glendinning.

Publisher: CHRISTOPH KELLER EDIITONS and JRP Ringier

236 pages

Year: 2008

Comments: Softcover under dustjacket, b&w and colors photographs. Designed by Mevis & Van Deursen. English edition. In very good condition other a tiny tear on cover.

Aglaia Konrad focuses a direct gaze on cities such as Cairo, Alexandria, and Anwar el Sadat. This is not classic architectural or documentary photography: her way of seeing things is unadorned and draws our attention straight to the history of the real setting. The photographs show the application of “modernist” principles to architectual development in desert landscapes. They spotlight an improbable dialogue between imported models and vernacular elements, constructions and sites, desert and communities, modernity and tradition.