Alastair Philip Wiper

Unintended Beauty

Alastair Philip Wiper
Marcelo Gleiser, Ian Chillag
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Hardback
h320 x 250mm - 208pg
24 Feb 2022 GE
International import eta 7-19 days
9783775752176
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With the technological and digital revolution, an entire universe of machines and computers has developed alongside the human world. These machines tell the story of what it is to be human: our needs and desires, our hopes and follies, our visions for the future. Alastair Philip Wiper's photographic eye sweeps across Adidas shoe factories, colossal shipyards, or laboratories such as the Swiss research centre CERN, showing us spaces of incomprehensible complexity. Observers can experience through this a kind of visuality that no longer has a consistent point of view, but a diversity that overwhelms the process of seeing. These photos not only possess a unique beauty of their own, as well as a fascinating aesthetic, but also stimulate thought and the search for one's own position in the world.
...Captures the 'accidental aesthetics' of the technological revolution near his base in Copenhagen and across the world, finding artistry in research facilities, industrial sites--and the robotics of a sex doll...--Editors at Wired "WIRED "
The photographer's approach reflects an insatiable curiosity about how things are packaged, powered and produced. But his ability to communicate this through pictures is the result of his keen eye, plenty of patience and the type of glass-half-full optimism required to find flashes of beauty in otherwise unattractive settings.--Oscar Holland "CNN "
The British photographer ALASTAIR PHILIP WIPER (*1980, Hamburg) became known for his work for the magazines Wired, The Guardian, Scientific American, Wallpaper, and Vice. His series about Silicon Val-ley (Silicon Nights) and his book The Art of Impossible about Bang & Olufsen have been greatly admired. Wiper lives in Copenhagen.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9783775752176
Published: 24 Feb 2022
Published In: Germany
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Format: Hardback
Height: 320mm
Width: 250mm
Pages: 208

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