Author: Philippe Pons
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Keywords: topographics, macao
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1861891369
ISBN-13: 9781861891365

A former Portuguese-administered enclave on the Chinese coast, Macao became a meeting point of cultures drawn from many parts of the world. A flourishing trade turned it into a rich warehouse, where more goods were traded than anywhere else. But Macao has also been a place of debauchery, with gambling dives, opium dens, pleasure houses, and an astonishingly successful smuggling industry. In this evocative text, Pons describes both Macao’s colorful past and the dramatic changes the 20th-century has seen, revealing its charms yet lamenting the passing of an era.Philippe Pons is the Tokyo corre

Author: Michael Freeman
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Keywords: topographics, cambodia
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1861891865
ISBN-13: 9781861891860

Cambodia has a long and rich history, first becoming an artistic and religious power in Southeast Asia in the Angkor period (802–1432), when god kings ruled from vast temple complexes at Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom. The cultural influence of Cambodia on other countries in the region has been enormous, quite out of keeping with its reduced territory and limited political and economic power today.In Cambodia, writer and photog-rapher Michael Freeman examines Cambodia’s present troubled situation in the light of its political and cultural history, looking at many aspects of modern Cambodia, in

Author: David Crowley
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Keywords: topographics, warsaw
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1861891792
ISBN-13: 9781861891792

The Polish city of Warsaw is often invoked as the epitome of the brutal environment produced by Soviet aesthetics and planning. In fact, it has been spectacularly transformed since the introduction of a market economy in 1989. Yet shadows from its past remain. In Warsaw, David Crowley tells the cultural history of the city through narrative and anecdote and reflects on the ways in which lived space is used and lent meaning by its inhabitants.

Authors:Britt Salvesen, Alison Nordstrom,
Publisher: Steidl & Partners
Keywords: topographics, new
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-01-31
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 386521827X
ISBN-13: 9783865218278

The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape was one of those rare exhibitions that permanently alters how an art form is perceived. Held at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York, in January 1975, it was curated by William Jenkins, who brought together ten contemporary photographers: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel, Jr. Signaling the emergence of a new approach to landscape, the show effectively gave a name to a movement or style, although even today,

Author: Armando
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Keywords: topographics, books, reaktion, berlin
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0948462876
ISBN-13: 9780948462870

Author: Lucian Boia
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Keywords: topographics, books, reaktion, romania
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-01-02
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1861891032
ISBN-13: 9781861891037

Romania examines the development of this eastern European country from the Middle Ages to the present day, introducing the reader to its culture, history, language, politics, ethnic identity, and international relations. Lucian Boia shows how modernization and the influence of Western language and culture have divided the nation, arguing that the country today is having difficulty fixing its identity and envisioning a future, and concludes with a tour of present-day Bucharest whose houses, streets and monuments embody the country’s values and contradictions.

Author: William Warren
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Keywords: topographics, books, reaktion, bangkok
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-09-02
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1861891296
ISBN-13: 9781861891297

William Warren’s Bangkok is an informal portrait of this most vibrant and perplexing of modern cities. Divided into two parts, the first is a selective history, showing how Bangkok has developed over the last 200 years, while the second explores the contemporary face of the city through a series of personal impressions.The author explains how the charms of Bangkok and its people outweigh the disadvantages of pollution, traffic and stifling heat. He also introduces celebrities, such as the early kings of Thailand’s present dynasty and Anna Leonowens, heroine of The King and I, as well as Ji