Carsten Meier: Public Parking by Carsten Meier, Cindy Gates and Thomas Kaestle
oblong folio. pp. 120. English & German text. profusely illustrated. hardcover. (fine condition). Keber, 2005.
Edition limited to 1500 printed copies.
ISBN-10: 3938025077 / ISBN-13: 9783938025079
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One byproduct of our global car culture is the proliferation of parking lots. By looking closely at these spaces that we usually ignore (unless we're searching for a parking spot), Carsten Meier, with these photographs, finds mystery in the mundane. Are they a real convenience or a kind of manipulation? In the empty parking lots of recently closed or just-built shopping centers, or in the vertigious view of a city over the railing of a multistorey deck, Meier depicts, as Stephen Shore has done before him, ordinary emblems of our extraordinary mobility.