The story behind Olivier Cablat’s Duck is already absurd enough. In 1930, the American farmer Martin Maurer, a Peking duck breeder in Long Island, New York, started looking for a way to make his farms look more appealing. The solution was simple and combined business with pleasure: make the building itself duck-shaped.
Forty-two years later, this feat of architecture would influence the city of Las Vegas, with the Maurer’s duck becoming a concept in itself: that of a structure whose shape embodies its content, something Marshall McLuhan, who once quacked that, “the medium is the message,” would have approved.
Cablat presents an international collection of vehicles and buildings which are ducks in their own way: the lobster car, the banana bus, the teapot stand, the strawberry water tower, the cactus balloon, etc.
By showing structures that are, perhaps unintentionally, a source of laughter, the photographer creates a short atlas of funny and wholesome architecture.
BOOK
Duck
Photographs d’Olivier Cablat
RVB Books
16x23cm
Soft cover
256 pages
217 color photographs
ISBN: 979-10-90306-33-2
Price : 32 €
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