Bernd Uhde – Urban Surfaces
From Bernd Uhde´s ‘Urban surfaces’ series, gallery Kunstgut Hamburg, book available from Seltmann+Söhne. The photos are taken from a helicopter or hot-air balloon. AirRealArt.
ARTSHit / Escif “Muros y paredes”
96 pages, hardcover, 150 signed copies available from artsh.it. His finest works until 2010 and a conversation with X, Y and Z about the street as an area of creation (in Spanish only). Watch out for Escif’s feature in the February issue of Juxtapoz and for his show at FIFTY24SF in summer. Street <-> Art.
Public hyperbindings
Lorenz Estermann analyses Eastern- and Central European industrial buildings from the 60s and 70s and overstates their aesthetics when he builds smalls scale models of them. He then places these objects in the middle of nowhere (and in galleries like LEVY /Hamburg and Röpke / Cologne) and takes photos or videos of them. Fun time! He also works on paper. For more info see this excerpt from his book “Public hyperbindings” (Hatje Cantz, 2010).
Blackdrop island
From the `Blackdrop Island’ series by Klara Källström / Stockholm. Read more about the project at The SIP.
The ruins of Detroit
Photography by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre. Book coming from Steidl in Dec. Is Detroit a model city (video)? Well…
Hans Eijkelboom
A very special street photographer and urban sociologist, Hans Eijkelboom. From his ‘10 EURO outfits’ series (2005-2006): ”I bought 32 new outfits for myself, initially once a week, later once a fortnight. The only criterion for my choice was the price: it couldn’t be higher than ± 10 euros.” All outfits are documented in a photo book. Serious asphalt.
Skateboarding in Uganda
These kids from the Uganda Skateboard Union definitely feel asphalt. After building their own structures near Kampala/Uganda “the elder ones use this sport as a means of communication within their community to transmit values as respect and solidarity.” Quote from the ’Kitintale’ folder from Yann Gross. More photos of the spots and skateboarders here. Also go for the videos.
East of the adriatic – photobook
‘East of the adriatic’ is available from 1980 editions for 28,00 €:
“Scott Bourne, well-known skateboarder and writer, welcomes us on board for a balkan road-trip cruising through Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania to Split, Croatia, by the Adriatic sea. The journey to the end of the night, with the rhythm of an old-time sailor song, of an author always seeking for discovery and strangeness. Bertrand Trichet and Sergej Vutuc exhibit their photographs, as if to express the different sensations of a same journey, and give a hand to Lars Grewe, Jaka Babnik and Scott Bourne himself to illustrate the text. Pierre Villanoba, first dancer of the San Francisco Ballet, signs the foreword and Romain Pareja has left his tattoo studio to draw mythologist figures which achieve to make unique this Balkan journal, to the East of the Adriatic.”
Follow this link for some more photos from inside the book.
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Incredible urban topographics from Grrrr.net aka Ingo Giezendanner! More info and a fairly comprehensive book of his ”urban recordings” here.
Oliver Boberg – Slums
Photographs of miniatures and computer drawings from the “Slum series” (2008-2009) by Oliver Boberg. Dive deeper into his work and consult the publications ”Oliver Boberg/Memorial 2002″ (Hatje Cantz), “Works 1997-1999″ (Eikon), “Model spaces” (Städtische Gallerie Nordhorn).
