LAST CALL
A photograph from Harry Gruyaert's latest astonishing and inspiring book, 'Last Call' (Thames & Hudson 2019), on human movement—and stasis... instagram.com/p/CBC8bCdnZ42/
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'Las Vegas airport. Nevada. USA' (1982) by Harry Gruyaert
I do not have many memories of the first half of the 80s, but I do recollect this exact texture of colours and shadows...
What if you could enter an airport where you can change planes? I mean—not airplanes, not flying devices, but planes of reality...
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'Sita Dulip's Method' by Ursula K. Le Guin—the first story of her collection 'Changing Planes' (2003)
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Airports by Garry Winogrand (1928–1984). The fourth photograph was used as cover image for the English edition (Verso) of Marc Augé's 'Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity'
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That second picture is so evocative in so many ways. Absolutely love it.
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