Beginning with two nearly identical images of City Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Actual Source books’ Vantage Point is the collaborative effort of Swedish artist Mårten Lange and American artist Daniel Everett. In 2016, Lange recognised a familiar image when looking through Everett’s monograph Throughout the Universe in Perpetuity (Études, 2015), when he found a photograph that almost exactly mirrored one he had taken years before: the same subject, same crop, shot from the same spot. The two began a discussion about this coincidence, and over several years and as many trips to Tokyo, a body of work examining that convergence was formed. Both artists operate from a… Read more
Beginning with two nearly identical images of City Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Actual Source books’ Vantage Point is the collaborative effort of Swedish artist Mårten Lange and American artist Daniel Everett. In 2016, Lange recognised a familiar image when looking through Everett’s monograph Throughout the Universe in Perpetuity (Études, 2015), when he found a photograph that almost exactly mirrored one he had taken years before: the same subject, same crop, shot from the same spot. The two began a discussion about this coincidence, and over several years and as many trips to Tokyo, a body of work examining that convergence was formed. Both artists operate from a place of observation, with architecture and likewise manufactured landscapes as their chosen visual conceit, using the idea of a metropolis as a vehicle to explore their individual preoccupations of what makes a civilisation.
Includes essays by Jesús Vasallo and Paola Paleari.
176 pages, 23 x 28cm, hardcover, Actual Source (Provo).
