Print:
approximately 75 B&W photographs with a photographic composition in the form of a poster (106 x 42 cm) produced by the artist and freely inserted in the work
Language:
EN
Date of Publication:
2021-10-21
Availability:
Temporarily unavailable
Pages:
128
Revised and expanded edition of the famous eponymous book published twenty years earlier which
included Michael Ackerman among the major figures of photography,
Diving into the heart of Benares, the most sacred city of Hinduism which welcomes
pilgrims who came here to die to wash away their sins and put an end to the
cycle of rebirths, End Time City immerses us in a hallucinatory world.
Michael Ackerman takes us on a wild stroll through the narrow
streets of the holy city leading to the ghats and cremation grounds. Saturated
of dust, populated by ghostly presences with intense gazes, the
Ackerman's images restore a world on the edge of a waking dream, where the
feeling of past-present simultaneity seems tangible. Time seems
encapsulated: the photographer captures the fury and the rustling of the world. His
images speak of transformation: they have come to unload the burden of time and
mortality, women and men mingle with stray dogs, emerge at
bend in an alley, look at us from the depths of a house. The state
feverish atmosphere that reigns here, marked both by slowness and by an agitated madness,
shows the vanity of the world. The photographer's intimate experience is made
experience of the universal. Women and men are united in the same movement
wandering through the streets. We are both very close to death and to
the life.
This work offers a new editing carried out by the artist. Revisiting his
archives accumulated during this trip to India made in the 1990s, the
photographer takes a step aside here: the change of format, of concept
graphics and the introduction of new images offer the reader a new opus.
Revised and expanded edition of the famous eponymous book published twenty years earlier which
included Michael Ackerman among the major figures of photography, the
This work offers a new editing carried out by the artist. Revisiting his
archives accumulated during this trip to India made in the 1990s, the
photographer takes a step aside here: the change of format, of concept
graphics and the introduction of new images offer the reader a new opus.
