A wonderful photo book by PierLuigi Macor with an eye-catching cover entitled 'Bowie, Texas' is now appearing at Edition Patrick Frey. Bound in hardcover with a large format, it makes the perfect coffee table book to leaf through and day dream. PierLuigi Macor took the tranquil, richly atmospheric photographs featured in Bowie, Texas over the course of five extended road trips from 2011 to 2016 across Montana, Texas and Colorado, up the Mississippi River and from New Orleans over to the high-desert town of Marfa, Texas. Driving around alone in his car far from the big cities, Macor pursued a single objective: to take good pictures and savor the satisfaction of getting the shot just right.
This quest took him across North America’s iconic landscapes and gave rise time and again to close encounters of very different kinds. After just a few minutes’ conversation, one man – who turns out to be a fellow photographer, on his way to a baseball game with his son – spontaneously invites Macor to join them for a meal in a diner. Elsewhere, mistrustful sheriffs and other unsavory characters threaten him with lethal weapons. He comes across Mexican street vendors and drunken rednecks alike, as well as an espresso bar under the pink skies of Detroit, of all places. PierLuigi Macor delicately and perceptively captures these cinematic scenes of everyday life in America and the individual fates he encountered on the road.
Taken together, these widely diverse and richly atmospheric photographs go to make up a visual novel of lyrical poignancy. Landscapes, roads and houses, even the people he portrays, need no names to tell their story. The photos are fragments of present-day reality in America, unstaged and highly evocative, even elegiac. This volume presents a representative selection of Macor's non-commercial work. The only thing one might miss are traces of David Bowie... Namesake of the book is a small town, the highlights of which include a visit by American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose train stopped in Bowie in 1938 to sell biscuits at a festive ceremony (source: Tagesanzeiger)
PierLuigi Macor (*1960) lives and works in Zurich and Paris. As fashion and art photographer, he has worked for two decades for international fashion and commercial clients, including Vogue China, ID, Vogue, Biba, Elle, Big etc. He works as a designer for the magazine "Zukunft". The design of the book was contributed by Studio Achermann Zurich, Beda Achermann / Enea Toldo.
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PierLuigi Macor. Bowie, Texas
Hardcover, 180 pages, 90 color ills., 28 × 33.5 cm
ISBN Number: 978-3-906803-57-9