Joel Sternfeld: Idubai

by Joel Sternfeld and Jonathan Crary

As Paris and its shopping arcades were to the 19th Century, Dubai and its wondrous malls may be to the new millennium. The Baudelarian fl'neur, is replaced by the phoneur, a wired wanderer who uses the cell phone to text and call and access the internet, all the while snapping digital images on the fly. If the arcades were representative sites of early capitalism, then perhaps the postmodern shopping playgrounds of Dubai are exemplars of advanced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865219160
• ISBN13: 9783865219169
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.2" x 5.2"