Roadshow
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3937718966 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | German, English, French, Italian, Spanish |
DESCRIPTION:
He drove along the world's longest highways, encountered the world's longest road trains, i.e. He wants in his own words: "to capture faces that reflect stories, experiences, even tradegy and roughness in a totally classic and unadorned manner in black and white photographs". The double page landscape photographs interjecting the series are just as impressive and suggest the publication be seen as a holistic composition ad be " read" as such.. the Australian road trains with up to four, sometimes five trailers measuring up to 70 metres in length. This reality seems rough and dangerous and all but worth emulating or aspiring to. He set up a complete mobile studio and asked his models, the truckers, if he can take a picture of them. It is the authenticity of the images which fascinates us rather than the reality that lies behind them. The portraits of the subjects are countered by similarly impressive views of the vehicles, from the front an this time in colour. The photographer Alexander Babic covered thousands of miles by car in Australia and Sou