{"product_id":"amir-zaki-building-and-becoming-9781954600010","title":"Amir Zaki, Building and Becoming","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHyperrealist photographer Amir Zaki's new monograph covers 20+ years of photographic work, following his widely reviewed book \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Concrete: A Landscape of Skateparks\u003c\/i\u003e. Includes an essay and interview.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA double gatefold sculptural monograph with no singular entry or exit and three spines, Amir Zaki, Building + Becoming opens to a full width of roughly 40 inches and brings multiple series into focus: suspended landscapes, rocks, carvings, and hyper-realist California beach architecture, which like his skateparks (also included), are uncannily quiet and devoid of people. \"I am looking for a kind of strangeness within the commonplace ... where something familiar and unfamiliar is initially welcoming yet alienating, using digital technology as a means to an end.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiterary critics Walter Benn Michaels and Jennifer Ashton discuss Zaki's manipulation of space through evenness, which is accomplished by creating a perfectly technically focused object: \"The point is not that the pictures overcome physical limits, but that they violate the logic of our eyesight.\" Referencing the history of landscape and modern photography in California (Edward Weston, Ansel Adams), Michaels and Ashton show that Zaki's insistence on marrying technology seamlessly with this tradition results in continuity, an \"addition through subtraction\" of the third-dimension. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eZaki has been interviewed for NPR online and featured or reviewed in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as having been interviewed in \u003ci\u003eDezeen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWallpaper\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Order\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle Decor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHypebeast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGUP Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAramco World\u003c\/i\u003e. His last book, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Concrete\u003c\/i\u003e is in the top 50 in Skateboarding books and top 150 in Individual Photographer books on Amazon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Doppelhouse Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954600010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.80h x 10.30w x 1.40d","brand":"Amir Zaki","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42038637396149,"sku":"9781954600010","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ea296799-565a-4508-b5c5-3248f15b9cdc.jpg?v=1649737843","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/amir-zaki-building-and-becoming-9781954600010","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}