...a photoBook is an autonomous art form, comparable with a piece of sculpture, a play or a film. The photographs lose their own photographic character as things 'in themselves' and become parts, translated into printing ink, of a dramatic event called a book... - Dutch photography critic Ralph Prins
zondag 22 december 2013
McHotel Tokyo Olivier van Breugel & Simone Mudde The Best Dutch Photobooks of 2013 Photography
Olivier van Breugel en Simone Mudde McHotel. Design : Koen Geurts. Self Published.
At three o’clock in the morning after singing in the karaoke bar, the subways in Tokyo are finished running. You are resigned to take a taxi, but as this is ridiculously expensive many Japanese have come up with an alternative. They go to the nearby Mc Donald’s. Instead of a meal, cups of soda or cheap coffee are being ordered. Everyone is seeking a comfortable place to take a nap until the first Metro starts up. For a week we got up at half past three in the morning to witness this phenomenon. The cities of the world are starting to look more and more alike - you can find the exact same stores and chains everywhere. What took us by surprise about this place is that a universal format such as McDonald’s can be temporarily transformed into a hotel.
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