Photobooks: Abandoned Places
The following books can be ordered at Blurb:
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Yesterday’s gone
About the book:
Abandoned by people, but still present are the human belongings, furniture, home decorations, letters and portraits, everything covered under a thin layer of dust.
This book takes off where ” It’s oh so quiet – a photographic journey through abandoned rooms” stopped and so provides a second tour through these tombs of nostalgia, places that are here now but may be gone tomorrow. Forever.
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It’s oh so quiet
About the book:
Vacant rooms. Excavated of habit, time stands still and unmarked: no clocks, no chores, no cycles beyond that of light falling through blinds or weather beating on windows. These rooms sigh, some gutted of furnishings, others full and tidy. Their seams shift imperceptibly over years. They’re as alive as when we loved and left them.
Photographs of such rooms capture the abandoned stories of those who lived in them, as well as time’s work on the past, the slow decay that occurs without a human presence to delay or hurry it along. These glimpses are most poignant when their mystery is left intact, when the artist is gentle enough to catch the story in her lens without marring the deep quiet left behind. The photos compiled in this book by Ineke Kamps achieve that fine balance, offering up a world that is neither fantasy nor reality, the calm heart of our shared history.
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