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Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs - The Great Unreal, Edition Patrick Frey, 2009, Zürich

 

Hardcover, 40 b/w images 65 color images, Design by Hi, Megi Zumstein, Claudio Barandun.

During a space of three years, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs traveled several months through the United States, working ‘on the road’ on the photo series The Great Unreal. The photographic work deals with reality and the fabrication of reality. The geography of America serves as both setting and fertile ground for the examination. Mysticism and demystification are important aspects in this process, as is working with a rich inventory of visual icons that can be continually deconstructed and manipulated. The working method of both photographers is based on interventions prescribed mostly by happenstance and change. Through repetition and associative placement, the sometimes crude, sometimes subtle interventions begin to link to one another, establishing an exciting transformation of reality that only hesitatingly reveals itself to the viewer.

Together with book designers Megi Zumstein and Claudio Barandun, what emerged is an unmitigated picture book that makes a visual journey possible without any instructions. It comprises narrative image sequences that approximate the curiosity and restlessness of being on the move and, at the same time, depict associative connections with the American landscape.

Pages: 152
Place: Zürich
Year: 2009
Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey
Size: 22 x 33 cm (approx.)


Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume III" by Parr/Badger
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 Taiyo  / Krebs Onorato - The Great Unreal (Front)

Taiyo / Krebs Onorato - The Great Unreal (Front)

 Taiyo  / Krebs Onorato - The Great Unreal (Spine)

Taiyo / Krebs Onorato - The Great Unreal (Spine)

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Taiyo / Krebs Onorato - The Great Unreal (Back)




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Hardcover, 40 b/w images 65 color images, Design by Hi, Megi Zumstein, Claudio Barandun.

During a space of three years, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs traveled several months through the United States, working ‘on the road’ on the photo series The Great Unreal. The photographic work deals with reality and the fabrication of reality. The geography of America serves as both setting and fertile ground for the examination. Mysticism and demystification are important aspects in this process, as is working with a rich inventory of visual icons that can be continually deconstructed and manipulated. The working method of both photographers is based on interventions prescribed mostly by happenstance and change. Through repetition and associative placement, the sometimes crude, sometimes subtle interventions begin to link to one another, establishing an exciting transformation of reality that only hesitatingly reveals itself to the viewer.

Together with book designers Megi Zumstein and Claudio Barandun, what emerged is an unmitigated picture book that makes a visual journey possible without any instructions. It comprises narrative image sequences that approximate the curiosity and restlessness of being on the move and, at the same time, depict associative connections with the American landscape.

Pages: 152
Place: Zürich
Year: 2009
Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey
Size: 22 x 33 cm (approx.)


Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume III" by Parr/Badger
>> see more Vol. III picks here