Streets of the World

di Jeroen Swolfs (Autore)

Lannoo Publishers, 2018

200 countries; one street each; seven years of travelling and collecting photos, stories, facts and figures about each country. This is not just another photography book. It reveals everything that a street means to society: education, wisdom, youth, experience, happiness, stories, food, and so much more. This is the raw material of life, drawn directly from the experiences of the Belgian photographer Jeroen Swolfs. Seeing the street as a unifying theme, he travelled in search of that one street in each place - sometimes by a harbour or a railway station - that comprised the country as a whole. Each stunning image conveys culture, colours, rituals, even the history of the city and country where he found them. Swolfs sees the street as a universal meeting place, a platform of crowds, a centre of news and gossip, a place of work, and a playground for children. Swolfs's streets are a matrix for community; his photographs are published at a time when the unique insularity of local communities everywhere has never been more under threat.

• Autore: Jeroen Swolfs
• Editore: Lannoo Publishers
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 408 p.
• Dimensioni: 308 x 250 mm
• EAN: 9789089897459

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