9781597112291. Pre-owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Contains: Unspecified. Illustrated in colour throughout. Site Specific is a summary of Olivo Barbieri s ten-year project to record the world s cities in aerial photographs. On the one hand the book offers remarkable documentation by a thrilling image-maker of twenty-five cities throughout the world. On the other it is a narrative of Barbieri s evolving approach to photography and his thoughts about the nature of the medium. Presented chronologically the photographs begin with the distinct tilt-shift photographs of Italian cities with which Barbieri first established his reputation-and that launched a popular stylistic movement for selective-focus photographs. During the series he later introduced other devices and approaches to distort perceived reality-such as playing with color registration and the deletion or discoloring of particular details-to dramatic effect. The result is a remarkable photo essay about twenty-first-century urban space and about photography itself. The book is introduced by Christopher Phillips and features Barbieri s city-by-city commentary. Aperture will present and tour an exhibition of the work beginning in the fall of 2013.