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Fully fueled / Basile Mookherjee.

By: Mookherjee, Basile, 1987-Material type: TextTextSeries: Edition Patrick Frey (Series) ; No 215.Publication details: Zürich : Edition Patrick Frey, 2016. Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v (unpaged) : ill., portraits ; 34 cmISBN: 9783906803159; 3906803155Subject(s): Street photography -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) | Street photography -- United Arab Emirates -- Abū Ẓaby | Documentary photography -- United Arab Emirates -- Dubayy (Emirate) | Documentary photography -- United Arab Emirates -- Abū Ẓaby | Materialism in art -- Pictorial works | Social change -- Pictorial works | United Arab Emirates -- Pictorial works | Photography of automobiles | Mookherjee, Basile, 1987-LOC classification: TR659.8 | .M66 2016Summary: This book brings together pictures taken from 2012 to 2014 by the young French photographer Basile Mookherjee, who documented young Emiratis' nights out and the United Arab Emirates' 42nd national holiday on the streets of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Flat, sprawled-out urban deserts, phallic urban geometries, reflecting surfaces and lavish ornamentation form the dčor. The secret stars of these photographs are of course the cars, and the view seldom rises above windshield level. The human subjects, traditionally dressed in dishdasha (for men) and abaya (for women), seem as though photographed 'through the lens of the car,' as the photographer puts it.
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This book brings together pictures taken from 2012 to 2014 by the young French photographer Basile Mookherjee, who documented young Emiratis' nights out and the United Arab Emirates' 42nd national holiday on the streets of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Flat, sprawled-out urban deserts, phallic urban geometries, reflecting surfaces and lavish ornamentation form the dčor. The secret stars of these photographs are of course the cars, and the view seldom rises above windshield level. The human subjects, traditionally dressed in dishdasha (for men) and abaya (for women), seem as though photographed 'through the lens of the car,' as the photographer puts it.

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