Title: Transformer

Photographer/s: Sevim Sancaktar

Date of publication: 2010

Place of publication: Istanbul

Dimensions: 16.5×19.5cm

Type of binding: Hardback, Accordion Book

Number of pages: 29

Type of paper: Offset paper

Number of pictures: 26

Type of printing: Offset

Publisher: Reccollective

Designer: Aylin Onel

Language: Turkish-English

ISBN: 978605888970

Category: artist book

Price: 25euro

Summary: “Transformer” is the first publication of Reccollective and designed by Aylin Önel.

Sancaktar takes close-ups of the wall illusions painted on electrical transformers throughout Istanbul and some surrounding cities. A representation of their time as well as a deformed reflection of urban history, architectural element as much as artistic expression, these images form a social and cultural portrait of the town; A city, eclectic as much as electric, which merge occidental and oriental, mix classical and contemporary, thus creating a utopical anachronism.
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Text by Laurence Cournet

Website: www.sevimsancaktar.com

Book link: http://www.reccollective.org/index.php?/project/rec-no0/

Donated by: Reccollective

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