Torsten Schumann - More Cars, Clothes And Cabbages Mamco 22 x 28 cm

22 x 28 cm

Sadie Plant

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This painstakingly researched publication also gives a compact sense of Züst’s overall work in that all the motifs from his color series are represented closely together in the black-and-whites here (some of those series have already been worked up in his books Bekannte Bekannte 1 and 2

Torsten Schumann - More Cars, Clothes And Cabbages Mamco 22 x 28 cmThe absurd story about a black dot and a passport control at the beginning of this book says a lot about Torsten Schumann and his view of the world. In short, life in the civilised world is full of curiosities. Schumann photographs ostensibly mundane scenes that nonetheless cause the viewer to pause, to chuckle or marvel at their accidental ingenuity. He has a keen eye for the improbable as it infiltrates the everyday, and for unremarkable detail