Edit Beijing (with signed C-Print)
Photographs by Guy Tillim
Text by Guy Tillim
Design by -SYB-
Éditions Bessard, 2017
Edition of 500 copies
Clothbound hardcover in slipcase
102 pp., 2 fold outs, 64 color illustrations + 1 signed C-Print (160 x 250 mm)
160 x 250 mm
ISBN 979-10-91406-49-9
Item #2841
South African photographer Guy Tillim photographed Beijing on a residency. In a 2 week period a series of new street photographs were shot and an initial edit shown to designer Syb Kuiper. The resulting book Edit Beijing, designed by SYB, skillfully presents this new material.
Quite different to the cityscape images of Tillim's work in African cities, Edit Beijing sees the photographer getting closer, as he noted, " I learned something valuable while making those 'cityscapes'. The more visible you are to people in the streets, the more invisible, in a certain sense, you become. So standing in plain sight with my tripod-mounted camera, I became instantly seen, assimilated, and ultimately, overlooked, which as you know, is often a desirable state of being for a street photographer." The photos in the book are placed side by side as if a continuous scene in a playful manner when in reality they are in fact single images.