# The Narcissistic City

- **Brand:** MACK
- **Price:** $60.00
- **Catalog:** mackbooks
- **Retailer:** mackbooks
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- **GTIN:** 9781910164600
- **Availability:** Out of stock

## Summary

The Narcissistic City by Takashi Homma, a photography book featuring a blue-toned urban cover, published by MACK in a paperback format with a dust-jacket and multiple gate-folds.

## Description

What kind of gaze does the city license? What kind of gaze does it induce, determine, inform, program, organise? What is the nature of the city as reality, as image and as symbol? What is this object of desire, at once near and ungraspable, fascinating and repulsive, attractive and intractable, necessary and unbearable, intimate and impenetrable, available and inaccessible, that it is for itself as well as for the man of the crowd, for the man in the street, for the man of the city, for those who inhabit it and those merely passing through it, for anyone who knows that it is a labyrinth but nonetheless allows himself to remain trapped in it? - Hubert Damisch Takashi Homma uses fragments collected in camera obscura constructed in metropolitan areas of Japan and the US to build a city image by image. Homma does not seek to index any particular city but to render a shadow world, a city's unconscious caught in a dark chamber, suspended in the camera’s box. The camera obscura offers a repetition, like the reflection shimmering in Narcissus’s pool. The narcissistic city is a city transfixed upon its own image – a mirror city, laced with repetition (modular) and reflections (glass). A city looking at its reflection, a city caught in a dark chamber, a city observing its camera obscura inversion – flickering inside the camera’s box. Takashi Homma (b. 1962 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese photographer. His monograph, Tokyo Suburbia (Korinsha,1998) won the Kimura Ihei Award in 1999.

## Appearance

- **Fit:** Unsigned

## Variants

- **In stock:** 0 of 2

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## Categories

- **Categories:** Photography Books

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-910164-60-0
- **tags:** Takashi Homma, transfer
- **pages:** 112 pages
- **author:** Takashi Homma
- **format:** Paperback with multiple gate-folds and dust-jacket
- **vendor:** MACK
- **binding:** Paperback with multiple gate-folds and dust-jacket
- **publisher:** MACK
- **dimensions:** 24 x 31.5 cm
- **page count:** 112 pages
- **product type:** Photography Books
- **listed prices:** €55 £45 US$60 AU$115
- **shopify handle:** the-narcissistic-city-br-takashi-homma
- **publication date:** April 2016
- **dimensions and pages:** 112 pages, 62 colour plates

## Enrichment

- **Type:** photography book
- **Type Synonyms:** art book, monograph
- **Tags:** paperback, dust-jacket, gate-folds
- **Styles:** contemporary, minimalist
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > Print Books
- **Book cover type:** Paperback
- **Genre:** Arts
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Target audience:** Adults
- **Canonical Brand:** MACK

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