Picture the World - Burhan Dogancay As Photographer

by Edelbert Köb, Edelbert Köb, Marily Satin Kushner

Picture the World - Burhan Doğançay as Photographer is the first comprehensive survey of Burhan Doğançay's (1929-2013) celebrated photographs of urban walls. Images of buildings, walls, murals, billboards, skyscrapers, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the ironworkers who built these monumental structures make up the bulk of his photographic archive, which consists of over 30,000 images. The collection of ninety black-and-white full-page photographs in this book span forty years of Burhan Doğançay's travels to over one hundred countries. They testify to his commitment to create a photographic archive that illuminates the unique combination of his artistic independence and technical confidence which distinguishes his work. Throughout these pages Doğançay's love of travel, people, and adventure are expressed as a festive collage of his own life. Picture the World - Burhan Doğançay as Photographer brings together established and younger scholars with the aim of exposing a new generation to the variety of critical approaches to this contemporary master. This affordably priced monograph also includes an introduction to the joyful visual world of Burhan Doğançay and a biography. A must-have for every photography enthusiast or conceptual art fan.

252 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2014