{"product_id":"walking-in-place-2-berlin","title":"WALKING IN PLACE 2: BERLIN","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalking in Place 2: Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Tucson-based photographer \u003cb\u003eMike Slack \u003c\/b\u003eoffers a meditative, if not psychic, expansion on the threads underpinning the first title in his series of standalone books, \u003ca style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/theiceplant.cc\/product\/walking-in-place-1-new-orleans\/\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalking in Place 1: New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. While his meanderings through the Big Easy saw him piece together a playful dialogue of architectural gestures, cats, flora and street ephemera – all rendered in the almost impossibly vibrant hues unique to the famed city – his strolls through the German capital shimmer with a very different palette, syntax and philosophic hue. Here, deep foliage, fungus and soft, refracted European light assuage concrete, steel and geometrics – as if the grand themes of the picturesque and the sublime were shrunken to microcosmic proportions. But this sequence of images defies its individual referents; this is not a book about bike seats, brutalist buildings, leaves and ladybugs. Rather, \u003ci\u003eWalking in Place 2\u003c\/i\u003e, like its predecessor, is about the simple act of \u003ci\u003eseeing,\u003c\/i\u003e and its relationship to both our outer and inner selves. Amidst the golden light, greenery and oblique built environment of Berlin, Slack – led by little but the specificity of awareness – renders a world that is uniquely his own. From a sea of background noise, a quality of light and a sensibility of mind awaken us to moments bordering on reverie.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eMike Slack\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003ePerimeter Editions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003ePaperback, 84 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eISBN \u003cspan\u003e9781922545572\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ice Plant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49107360514283,"sku":"9781922545572","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/1061\/files\/260374.9781922545572.berlin.jpg_500x849_45cb43c2-33e9-44b2-8932-6d148a117938.jpg?v=1784925725","url":"https:\/\/store.hammer.ucla.edu\/products\/walking-in-place-2-berlin","provider":"Hammer Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}