Off Centre, On Stage
Subtitle: Dubai scenes from the 1970s
By: Todd Reisz ; Arabic translation Ban Kattan
Contributors: Kattan, Ban, author; Markaz Jamīl lil-Funūn
Publisher: Khatt Books
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789490939236
Subjects: Photography; Exhibitions; City planning; Nineteen seventies
Other titles: Dubai scenes from the 1970s; Off center, on stage
Description: This fascinating book appears in conjunction with an exhibition at Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai that reveals and illuminates archival images taken between 1976 and 1979. The photographers, Stephen Finch and Mark Harris, did not intend to make pictures for commercial, documentary, or artistic purposes, but rather record visual notes of urban life in order to create designs for the city's future. Conceived and written by Todd Reisz, an expert on the UAE's urban transformations, the book offers an intriguing account of Dubai on the cusp of monumental change, an insignificant patch of empty sand, driven by human invention to become the exceptional nexus of architecture we know today. Exhibition: Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (29.09.2021-21.03.2022)
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai from September 29, 2021 - March 21, 2022

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