An essay on the concave city corner is in-depth analysis of a personal collection of photographs of concave city corners and forms an exploration of the transformation from space to place. More specifically it is about how the city becomes a place. Many social geographers pondered the question of how place compares to space. There exists consensus about space being the more abstract form while, on the other hand, the place is marked by identity and experience. For instance, an assortment of spaces like streets and buildings in a city can become a familiar neighborhood to people that get to know its street corners and landmarks. So is it in the perception by people that spaces become places?
Concave corners are an example of typical spaces found in any city. They are the reflex interior angle of a concave polygon, wherein this case the polygon stands for a city block or a single building. How are these corners to contribute to (parts of) the generic city becoming more specifically linked to personal experience, and the perception of the city as the place? And how can the act of photography assist in street corners becoming a place? Visibility is an important contributor to how space and place are perceived. Because photography is the predominant tool of contemporary visual language, to what extent is photography capable of contributing to a sense of place, to the genuine experience of a city, and of cityness? How could photography capture the placeness of cities or at least some of its crucial spatial features?
- 36.4cm x 12.8cm;
- 164 pages;
- 151 photographs + 174 graphic images;
- Offset CMYK printing on Tablo 76 gsm & Munken Print Cream 100gsm;
- Binding: open spine thread sewing;
- Cover: silkscreen on grey cardboard;
- Published by Photobook Week Aarhus;
- Photography by Stijn Van der Linden;
- Text by Stijn Van der Linden & Katrien Vanherck;
- Copy-edit by Taco Hidde Bakker;
- Design by Stijn Van der Linden (edit and design of dummy version was developed in the RPS Photobook Masterclass 2017 by Yumi Goto, Sandra Van der Doelen & Teun Van der Heijden);
- Color separations by Raimundas Austinskas;
- Printed and bound by KOPA;
- ISBN: 9788797010327.
