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Unfamiliar Familiarities: Outside Views on Switzerland

Unfamiliar Familiarities: Outside Views on Switzerland

Pfrunder, Peter

Hardcover

Travel GeneralGeneral Photography

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ISBN10: 3037785101
ISBN13: 9783037785102
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
Published: Mar 25 2017
Pages: 312
Weight: 2.60
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Switzerland's image has been significantly shaped by photographs dedicated to tourism. Through spectacular mountain panoramas, snapshots of rural idylls, or portraits of local people, the country could be successfully marketed, and these photographs also made an important contribution toward national identity. Another consequence, however, was that the respective pictorial repertoire became inflated and stereotyped. For this publication and for an exhibition of the same name opening in 2017, five internationally renowned photographers were invited to scrutinize Switzerland in their capacity as independent, subjective, and sensitive observers--unrestricted by any advertising commission. What Alinka Echeverría (Mexiko/UK), Shane Lavalette (USA), Eva Leitolf (Germany), Simon Roberts (UK), and Zhang Xiao (China) discovered on their travels around the country or along its borders is both inspiring and revealing. Their exciting, poetic, or mysterious-enigmatic images invite viewers to see the familiar with the eyes of an outsider.

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