Architecture and photography: beach types

Architecture and photography: beach types

"Relics", a selection of works by LA-based photographer and artist Amir Zaki. A photo-essay from Los Angeles

It is a series that engenders doubt. Doubt, first of all, as to the nature of the medium (photography? Computer-generated imagery? A combination of the two?); doubt as to the verisimilitude of the subjects depicted; doubt as to which of several possible interpretations of the title might be the most accurate. The subjects of Zaki's photographs – granted that images so heavily manipulated can still be defined as photography – are a series of lifeguard cabins that populate the beaches of Southern California's coast.

Section
Photo-essays
Published
03 Dec 2010
Location
Los Angeles
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