Originally trained as sculptor, Thomas Demand approaches photography as a means of preserving his painstakingly created, ephemeral paper constructions. At no time do his forms strive for the perfect illusion, his is a wholly artificial world reduced to generic forms. Large immaculate photographs of interiors and architectural exteriors - a world peopled with inanimate objects and bathed in uniform lighting - are mounted on Plexiglass, which underscores the materiality of the photographic object. For each of his reproductions, Demand constructs life-size models using paper and cardboard.
- ISBN10 0500974950
- ISBN13 9780500974957
- Publish Date 2 April 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 June 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English