Boarding pass
By: Ari Marcopoulos
Contributors: Sommerhalder, Benjamin, 1977-, book designer
Edition: First edition.
Series: Perimeter Editions -- 038; Perimeter Editions -- 038.
Publisher: Co-published by Nieves and Perimeter Editions
Published: 2018
Place of publication: [Zürich, Switzerland and Melbourne, Australia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9783905999969; 9780648262886
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Air travel; Pictorial works; Photobooks
Other titles: Ari Marcopoulos :
Description: Air travel has informed Ari Marcopoulos' life more than most. Beyond a necessary mode of transport, the passenger plane has proved something of quiet point of obsession for the Amsterdam-born, New York-based photographer and filmmaker. Before moving to New York in 1980 - where Marcopoulos would carve out a career defined by his raw and intimate renderings of some of America's most significant subcultural protagonists - he spent much of his childhood flying with his father, a commercial airline pilot. A conversation with Marcopoulos reveals a fascination that still burns. He recalls wandering the tarmac, studying the underside of the wings and fuselage; he remembers riding in the cockpit on an overbooked flight en-route to a Euro Cup final; he flaunts an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of new, old and mothballed commercial airplanes - the Lockheed Super Constellation, Douglas DC-8 Stretch and the Boeing 737-MAX among them. Boarding Pass, Marcopoulos' new book for Nieves and Perimeter Editions, takes this experience of flight, and the machines that make it possible, as its defining motifs. Photographed over the last year while in transit, the characteristically intuitive, off-the-cuff images that populate this volume offer countless vantages - near and far - of airplanes on the tarmac or in flight, rerouting our gaze from the pragmatic and economic towards the poetic. Here, Marcopoulos appeals to the notion that flying - for all its supposed monotony - is still something close to a miracle. -Publisher's website.
Notes: First edition  of 1400, with a special edition of 100 copies featuring a zine by Stefan Marx.

Design: Benjamin Sommerhalder.

Section sewn, softcover.