Cardiff After Dark - Rilegato

Maciej Dakowicz; Sean O'Hagan

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ISBN 10: 0500544190 ISBN 13: 9780500544198

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2012

Riassunto

Cardiff After Dark is the first monograph by British-based Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz. Dakowicz spent five years photographing the nighttime revelries that take place in Cardiff over the weekend. Focused around a few pedestrianized streets in the city centre, Dakowicz's images capture nightlife fueled by alcohol and emotions. The arc of an evening's entertainment is captured in these candid photographs, which reveal fun and hilarity as well as fighting and drunken exhaustion. There are stag nights and hen parties, men dressed as superheroes and women dressed as Playboy bunnies, mountains of discarded chip wrappers, arrests by the police, and lots and lots of posing for photographs. Dakowicz's images, at times shocking or upsetting, form an important documentary photobook of British urban life in the early part of the 21st century.

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Its clear that amid the tides of rubbish, tangled limbs and drunken antics, Dakowicz captures a more nuanced picture of a British city's nightlife: one that may have tears, vomit and sometimes blood, but also includes joyfulness, camaraderie, fun and friendship - and moments of splendidly surreal humor. --Metro

Epic ... a hymn to camaraderie and hedonism --The Observer

Though this book has come in for a bit of stick from the press I think it has genuine artistic merit and provides a valid sociological document of our times ... It also makes the ideal present for the kind of person who is really difficult to buy for. --Proper Magazine

Dakowicz's lens, neither judging nor flattering, is utterly fearless - many subjects who notice the camera show suspicion or outright hostility. The book isn't for the faint-hearted - there's blood, flesh, and more besides - but this befits an unflinching portrayal of hard-drinking culture. --Amateur Photographer

Alarming, shocking, utterly hilarious and guaranteed to vindicate those who think that Britain has become a nation of dissolute drunks --The Observer

These photos are good. Some are very, very good ... a study in the performativity of inebriated exuberance ... Gin Lane with fewer clothes, more kokes, and no proselytising. --New Welsh Review

Alarming, shocking, utterly hilarious and guaranteed to vindicate those who think that Britain has become a nation of dissolute drunks --The Observer

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0500544190
• ISBN 13: 9780500544198
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 128