Hidden Cities: A Photobook
Introducing "Hidden Cities: A Photobook," a book editorial design that draws inspiration from Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities." Created as an assignment for Editorial Design (IID3002) at Yonsei University during the Spring Semester of 2023, this photobook combines curated photographs and evocative texts to offer a unique perspective on urban landscapes. Beyond its aesthetic appeal, this project serves as a catalyst for social awareness, encouraging readers to explore the hidden layers of cities and cherish the rare and underrated moments that unfold within them. By capturing these fleeting glimpses, the photobook invites viewers to reevaluate their surroundings and foster a deeper appreciation for the cities they inhabit or pass by.
Introducing "Hidden Cities: A Photobook," a book editorial design that draws inspiration from Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities." Created as an assignment for Editorial Design (IID3002) at Yonsei University during the Spring Semester of 2023, this photobook combines curated photographs and evocative texts to offer a unique perspective on urban landscapes. Beyond its aesthetic appeal, this project serves as a catalyst for social awareness, encouraging readers to explore the hidden layers of cities and cherish the rare and underrated moments that unfold within them. By capturing these fleeting glimpses, the photobook invites viewers to reevaluate their surroundings and foster a deeper appreciation for the cities they inhabit or pass by.
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MARIO
GIACONELLI
Italian, 1925–2000
But first, for many long years, it was
uncertain whether or not the final victory
would not go to the last species left to
fight man’s possession of the city: the rats.
From each generation of rodents that the
people managed to exterminate, the few
surviviors gave birth to a tougher progeny,
invulnerable to traps and resistant to all
poison. In the space of a few weeks, the
sewers of Theodora were repopulated
with hordes of spreading rats. At last,
with an extreme massacre, the murderous,
versatile ingenuity of mankind defeated
the overweening life-force of the enemy.
Having said this, I do not wish your
eyes to catch a distorted image, so
I must draw your attention to an
intrinsic quality of this unjust city
germinating secretly inside the secret
just city: and this is the possible
awakening—as if in an excited
opening of windows—of a later
love for justice, not yet subjected
to rules, capable of reassembling
a city still more just than it was
before it became the vessel of injustice.
But if you peer deeper into
this new germ of justice you can
discern a tiny spot that is spreading
like the mounting tendency to
impose what is just through what
is unjust, and perhaps this is the
germ of an immense metropolis....
The city, great cemetery of the
animal kingdom, was closed, aseptic,
over the final buried corpses with
their last fleas and their last germs.
Man had finally reestablished the
order of the world which he had
himself upset: no other living species
existed to cast any doubts. To recall
what had been fauna, Theodora’s
library would preserve on its shelves
the volumes of Buffon and Linnaeus.
From my words you will have reached
the conclusion that the real Berenice
is a temporal succession of different
cities, alternately just and unjust. But
what I wanted to warn you about is
something else: all the future Berenices
are already present in this instant,
wrapped one within the other, confined,
crammed, inextricable.
HIDDEN CITIES INVISIBLE CITIES | Page 46
HIDDEN CITIES INVISIBLE CITIES | Page 47
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