Von Erde Schöner

Archiv Peter Piller

BOO 352 U
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CONDITION & NOTES
Good - Very Good / Dust jacket has a few spots and some wear along the edges, but is now in a protective mylar sleeve. Inside in great condition with a very slight hint of edge discolouration along the top edge of the page. Edition of 800.

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Hardcover

2004

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

German

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Revolver 29.5 x 29.5 cm
CONDITION
Good - Very Good / Dust jacket has a few spots and some wear along the edges, but is now in a protective mylar sleeve. Inside in great condition with a very slight hint of edge discolouration along the top edge of the page. Edition of 800.

TYPE
Hardcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2004

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
German

PUBLISHER
Revolver

DIMENSIONS
29.5 x 29.5 cm

ABOUT

 

"Today, with google earth on every device, seeing the world from above has become a part of everyday life. Still, back in the 1980s it was a novelty to see your own home from a bird’s-eye view and people would buy such pictures and enjoy the change of perspective on their own home.

This is how the archive that Peter Piller used for the publication Von Erde schöner [Prettier from Earth] came to be: 12.000 photographs taken between 1979 and 1983 and sold from door to door by a cunning businessman. They show the bleak, conventional, often generic and sometimes overly personalized houses of German homeowners. Working with this massive collection of aerial shots, a task Piller described as a journey into his own past, he selected 300 pictures, sorting them by similarities, thereby creating a slight storyline throughout the book."