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Detroit City Map

Item date(s): 2008

Kati Rubinyi


Pages: unpaged
Size: 120mm, oblong


Publisher: Artists Book
ISBN: 978-0-615-15728-3

Additional notes:
I took a sequence of photographs along a route through the city determined by the crease lines of the unfolded map. The orientation of the folds is different from that of the city street grid, and so each time my path of travel crossed a street I took two pictures: one in the direction of travel, printed on the right-hand pages of the book, and the other in the opposite direction, printed on the left. Because the folds of the map align with the cardinal axes, the initial sequence of pictures on the right face north and those on the left face south. Turning the pages of the book, the reader can occasionally glimpse objects in the urban landscape on the right move closer, eventually receding into the distance on the left.

The text weaves newspaper accounts of the three rions of the 1920s, 1940s and 1960s with literary sources, its point-of-view shifting over the course of the book.

Exhibition notes:
Faces, Spaces and Tenuous Places

JBCBA, WAM

6 February – 13 May 2024

Ref: GB/15394


   


   


   



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