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Capital

Mark Hage

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English
A Public Space
20 December 2020
In Capital, Mark Hage reframes the story of gentrification, and in photographic portraits of shuttered retail spaces captures the hidden soul of the city. Exploring the accidental compositions that emerge in the built environment, he invites us to view an alternative to increasingly overmediated spaces in photographs of what is abandoned, altered, left behind, gutted. An elegy to a disappearing city becomes an emotional homage to the labors that built it.
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Imprint:   A Public Space
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 127mm,  Width: 165mm, 
ISBN:   9781733973076
ISBN 10:   1733973079
Pages:   128
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mark Hage, long based in New York's SoHo neighborhood, has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Parsons on the narratives of structure and form from ancient times to the present; and spoke at the New Museum on the intersection of creative forces. His work has appeared in NOON,Lit Hub, and A Public Space, where he is a contributing editor.

Reviews for Capital

At first and perhaps out of discomfort, I walked by the shuttered stores thinking of them as surface, without seeking depth or further understanding. But with time, I started to look inside, lingered, and began to photograph for Capital. -Mark Hage, Lit Hub, The Private Lives of Shuttered Stores Capital's images capture the vestiges of this neglect with an eye for demolition's compositional accidents. Hage's camera zooms in on walls stripped down to scarred and textured abstractions, outlets and wires bereft of purpose, and columns that stand sentry over emptiness. -Louis Bury, Hyperallergic Hage's own design sense is exquisite: walls of color or lines or blotches, depths of field extending into unlit edges, snaking wires and interior transom windows, all framed to locate the viewer as the sole observer, the watchperson, watching for the next moves of capital. -Ron Slate, On the Seawall


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