What’s fascinating about Another Language, beyond its title that’s half-Karl von Frisch’s dancing bees, half-Italo Calvino’s visual alphabet, is the precision of Mårten Lange’s photographs.
Like the Swedish photographer, and taking their cue from Ryan McGinley, thousands of amateur photographers publish millions of images of animals, fences at night, caves and neon signs on the web every day. But only a handful are as thorough as Mårten Lange, who, with an economy of means (black and white, centered framing, no effects) makes our world more interesting.
Today we takes pictures the way we check off boxes on a list. This is Lange’s cases, who insisted on photographing “a flash of lightning, a jellyfish, a whirlwind,” and regrets that “frogs, comets and octopuses” didn’t make it into the book. For readers interested in seeing this list evolve in real-time, his blog is one of the best of its kind. Let us once again praise the work of Mack Books. Every release is a quiet testament to the quality of their work.
Antoine Soubrier
Another Language
96 pages
14 x 21cm
October 2012
30 €
