Edited by Thomas Zander & Markus Schaden.
Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin.
Text by Ken Schles
128 pages, 208 illustrations
English
With his photographs, the American photographer Schles approaches the omnipresence of social structures, which – pushed by the flood of media images – are undergoing permanent, almost frantic change. In a veritable visual roller coaster he sends his viewers onto city streets, playgrounds, into pubs and bars, puts them into a police helicopter and takes them to death row, hospital rooms and police interventions. There is no “story”, only a breathless sequence of pictures condensed into thematic clusters – a highly intense visual experience soon holding the viewer spell-bound.