Description
Photographs and essay by Lynn Saville
Color photographs of cityscapes at twilight and dawn that convey the richness of vacancy as a descriptor and a concept. Shuttered stores, blank billboards, untended lots, ghosted figures, and abandoned industrial sites suggest the cycle of change and renewal in which places become spaces and vice versa.
It’s not that the city becomes uninhabited; more that it is inhabited by itself, by premises and windows, walls and doors, all of which seem to exist for their own sakes, not as conduits to or components of social interaction…Occasionally there is evidence of what might be called the archaeology of overnight: resting tools, tired steps, dreaming brooms, sleeping shadows…Stripped of contemporary merchandise and tell-tale signage, empty premises become difficult to date so that they seem sometimes to have dropped not only out of time but of history…The vacancy is both spatial and temporal-and Dark City is full of it. – Geoff Dyer, from his introduction to Dark City, “The Archaeology of Overnight”
Published by Damiani, Bologna, Italy
Introduction by Geoff Dyer
13″ x 9.75″ with 75 color photographs
Hardcover, 128 pages
ISBN: ISBN 978-88-6208-411-6
Publication Date: Fall 2015
Book Design by Yolanda Cuomo Design, NYC
Associate Designer: Bonnie Briant
Reproduction and Print Preparation: Jonno Rattman
