
Back To The Arcade
- Publisher
- Setanta Books
- Year
- 2023
- Specifications
- Hardcover
Essay by Raymond Gaston
300 x 240 mm
164 pages
148 images
A mastery of colour and an ability to frame a narrative are on full display: the arcades open to the viewer like a tightly woven short film, almost noir. There is a feeling of criminality within the pictures, as if you had found your way into a speakeasy where acts are taking place, hidden and fringe, celebrated by the lucky few able to give the password to the doorman — and in the midst of it all are the machines themselves, grouped together in colonies of light.