{"product_id":"9783959050272","title":"Arne Schmitt: New Inequality: A Photo Book Tracing Neo-Liberal Architectures","description":"In March 2009 Cologne’s historical Stadtarchiv collapsed: a catastrophe that can be seen as a consequence of a neoliberal programme of urban redevelopment. Yet for all that, critiques of neo-liberalism often run into difficulty because they lack a clearly defined object to focus on. Faced with structural complexities, their analysis and criticism is often directed towards isolated instances. Arne Schmitt confronts this tendency in his book with a resolutely straightforward approach, or — to use a key concept from the accompanying text by writer Thorsten Krämer — with uncomplexity. On a clearly mapped-out walk through Cologne, Schmitt photographs architecture from different periods, all in black and white. The images and the form of the book thus refer back to the theme-oriented photo-books of the 1950s and 1960s, in which political and social critiques of the day were combined with photographic depictions of the city — a level of achievement that is well worth recapturing.","brand":"Red Window Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038802854128,"sku":"9783959050272","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783959050272_p0.jpg?v=1769833672","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783959050272","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}