Scheidegger & Spiess New Titles Autumn 2016

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02.09.15 | Paris | Room 591 01.10.15 | Panama City | Room 1704 32 cities, five continents, one class of hotel room: Standard. 14.10.15 | Shanghai | Room 1814 21.10.15 | Bangkok | Room 1608
In thirty-two cities across five continents, Swiss photographer Roger Eberhard booked a standard double room at the local Hilton and took two photographs: one of the room’s interior—always from the same perspective—and one of the view from the hotel room’s window. The result of this project is Roger Eberhard—Standard, an unusual urban panorama of sixty-four photographs, reproduced large enough to make it easy to see the diversity within the uniformity of one of the world’s largest international hotel chains. In this era of increasing globalization and commercialization Roger Eberhard—Standard shows that international hotel chains, restaurants, and similar establishments maintain a remarkably uniform design—a true “standard”—that has made many places and cities feel almost interchangeable. At the same time, they retain some of their unique characteristics, and Eberhard’s photographs reveal the subtle, yet important, influence of local taste. The book also contains an essay by German novelist Benedict Wells on the monotony he feels while staying in a succession of hotel rooms on book tours, as well as essays by art historian Franziska Solte and curator Nadine Wietlisbach. Scheidegger & Spiess Art I Photography I Architecture Features for the first time Roger Eberhard’s latest photographic project Offers a conceptual, artistic view at the diversity in uniformity of international hotel chains Roger Eberhard ranks among the most recognized contemporary Swiss photographers Bookstore Location Photography Audience Anyone interested in contemporary photography or in hotels Roger Eberhard – Standard Essays by Franziska Solte, Benedict Wells, and Nadine Wietlisbach Hardback, 104 pages 64 color illustrations 32.5 × 28 cm (13 × 11 in) 978-3-85881-528-6 English / German Price: sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 £ 40.00 | $ 60.00 OCTOBER 2016 (Europe) FEBRUARY 2017 (US) Roger Eberhard graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography In Santa Barbara, CA, and from Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK. He lives and works in Zurich and Berlin and runs his own publishing company b.frank books. Franziska Solte is a scholar of art history and works as a research assistant at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Benedict Wells lives and works as a writer in Berlin. He is the author of widely acclaimed novels including Becks letzter Sommer, Spinner, and Vom Ende der Einsamkeit. Nadine Wietlisbach is a curator and publicist and has been appointed as Director of PhotoforumPasquArt in Biel / Bienne, Switzerland, in 2015. 15
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