Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asia

KIRK PEDERSEN: URBAN ASIA is a large format photography book with 85 color reproductions from Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo and several cities in China. It is not a travel book and is unlike any other book on the cities of Asia. Photographer Jeff Brouws writes in the introduction: No other artist-photographer is doing exactly what he's doing. With this fluid approach, traveling from city to city with no grand theme in mind, his work is distinctly different from his contemporaries. Michael Wolf shoots exclusively in Hong Kong and China; Edward Burtynsky's extensive coverage of the Three Gorges Dam Project and other industrial sites has happened often within the territorial limits of China; and Sze Tsung Leong history images - scenes of rampant development and architectural spectacle - are confined to Shanghai. While they all might share continents and countries they don't share viewpoints. Pedersen's eclectic stance creates a different photographic yield - he reclaims the commonplace and the fragmentary in these spaces/places... Hardcover, cloth with paper jacket, edition 1000, 12 x 12 inches, Japanese matt paper with spot vanished images. Also available is a Special Edition with a signed photo in a clamshell box - edition 100 (40 reserved for the artist).