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The Photographer's Office, [London] [Published date: 2008]. Hardcover, 24 unnumbered pp; color illustrations; 15 x 25 cm. Artist's edition limited to 1000 copies, this is hand-numbered "219". Spine title: Dreams of flying 2. Text in English.
In very good condition. Glossy pictorial paper-covered boards with photographic illustration on front and back. Light edgewear and faint surface scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Jan von Holleben's "Dreams of Flying 2" continues his celebrated photographic project, staging children in playful re-enactments of fairy tales and popular culture scenes. Shot from above, the children lie on the ground surrounded by simple props, transforming themselves into characters from stories like "Ghostbusters," "Peter Pan," "The Karate Kid," "Superman," "Aladdin," and others. The resulting tableaux blur reality and imagination, turning everyday objects into stages for dreamlike adventure.