{"product_id":"9783775754804","title":"Anastasia Samoylova: Image Cities by Victoria del Val","description":"Reinventing the Image of the Global Metropolis  Image Cities  takes us on a journey through cities the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranks highest according to their degree of \"global interconnectedness.\" We find them in a process of transformation concealed behind dummy fa?ades onto which a sense of heightened anticipation has been projected.   It would be tempting to read these photographs as a polemic against the triumph of consumerism and a slowly numbing global visual-economic order that wraps itself around whatever once felt local and civic. Samoylova's photography is full of masterful refinements of the existing clich?s of urban photography: Citizens dwarfed by giant images. Faces and bodies refracted through glass. The Pop-Cubism of visual bricolage. The minuscule human figures that stroll seemingly indifferent through city space while being at least partly somewhere else in their imaginations - their existence already a collage of places and times. Yet, Samoylova consciously engages with clich?, takes it apart and reassembles it, gambling that it can be taken to a level of pictorial sophistication that eludes any simple argument or statement. Instead, she invites us to reflect on photography's role in the creation of a gap between these citie's brand identity and their everyday reality.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310919168373,"sku":"9783775754804","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783775754804.jpg?v=1762815795","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9783775754804","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}