Contemporary Photography from India and South America: Eternal Impermanence

by Claudia Fini, Francesca Lazzarini, Filippo Maggia

A compelling collection of images providing a clear interpretation of contemporary reality of India and South America. The fourth publication in the Skira Contemporary Photography series presents the works of twenty-two artists from India and South America. More than one hundred works are reproduced in this book (including videos, photographs, animations and installations) that investigates the cultural, natural, historical, and artistic variety distinguishing the two areas, highlighting their strong points and different critical issues, and examining the parallels between these seemingly disparate subjects.

Genres: Photography

192 pages, Hardcover

First published September 25, 2012

Reviews

[Michele · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book concept is so stretched that it’s almost fantastic. Unfortunately the title/concept doesn’t keep up with the promises, furthermore it’s misleading. More than half of the artists listed are not photographers, but use photography to represent their art, installations, etc. Some of them are represented with numerous photos, others with just one, two. Some pictures spread on the entire page others are too small to be really appreciated.
The entire book seems like a cut and paste of some previous catalogues or memories in curators mind, more like a huge left overs soup.
Too bad, some photographs are definitely worth watching.