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WALKING IN PLACE 2: BERLIN
Mike Slack

Co-published with PERIMETER EDITIONS

84 pages / 4.25 x 7.5 in. / Paperback + jacket
53 color photographs
ISBN 978-0-9876371-6-1
Edition of 750 copies
SEPTEMBER 2019
*SIGNED COPIES*


27.00 USD
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“His situation, insofar as he was a machine, was complex, and laughable. But the sacred part of him, his awareness, remained an unwavering band of light… At the core of each person who reads this book is an unwavering band of light.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Breakfast of Champions

In Walking in Place 2: Berlin, Los Angeles-based photographer Mike Slack offers a meditative, if not psychic, expansion on the threads underpinning the first title in his series of standalone books, Walking in Place 1: New Orleans. While his meanderings through the Big Easy saw him piece together a playful dialogue of architectural gestures, cats, flora and street ephemera – all rendered in the almost impossibly vibrant hues unique to the famed city – his strolls through the German capital shimmer with a very different palette, syntax and philosophic hue. Here, deep foliage, fungus and soft, refracted European light assuage concrete, steel and geometrics – as if the grand themes of the picturesque and the sublime were shrunken to microcosmic proportions. But this sequence of images defies its individual referents; this is not a book about bike seats, brutalist buildings, leaves and ladybugs. Rather, Walking in Place 2, like its predecessor, is about the simple act of seeing, and its relationship to both our outer and inner selves. Amidst the golden light, greenery and oblique built environment of Berlin, Slack – led by little but the specificity of awareness – renders a world that is uniquely his own. From a sea of background noise, a quality of light and a sensibility of mind awaken us to moments bordering on reverie.


Mike Slack lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. The author of The Transverse Path, the Polaroid trilogy OK OK OK, Scorpio, and Pyramids, as well as High Tide and Shrubs of Death, his work has appeared in Harper’s, GOOD, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times. His photographs are in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

www.mike-slack.com