In 1987 Aperture published Lynne Cohen’s first monograph,
來源：香港大書城megBookStore,http://www.megbook.com.hk Occupied Territory, an exploration of space as simulated
experience—an ersatz reality, idealized and standardized. Now,
Aperture is pleased to release a newly expanded and updated reissue
of this classic monograph, making Cohen’s pioneering work available
to a contemporary audience and situating her appropriately within
the lineage of Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore, and other widely
celebrated Topographic photographers. In the twenty years of work
contained in the book, Cohen turns her view camera toward
classrooms, science laboratories, testing facilities, waiting
rooms, and other interior spaces where function triumphs over
aesthetics. What decorations the inhabitants might have added to
these rooms to make them more inviting—mostly phony attempts at
warmth or individualism—only serve to amplify their artifice and
uniformity. In cool, functional offices, futuristic reception
areas, lifeless party rooms, escapist motel rooms, and haunting
killing chambers, Cohen surveys a society of surface,
contradiction, and social engineering. In her hands, clouds peel
off walls and forest glades invade indoor tennis courts, and the
awkward lives of furniture are revealed. Drawing on a background in
sculpture, Cohen records the world’s readymade sculptures, waiting
to be framed by the photograph. This new edition of Occupied
Territory includes a new text by Britt Salvesen, and over fifteen
unpublished images drawn from the book’s original time period of
the ’70s and ’80s, encouraging a reexamination of Cohen’s deft
exploration of Topographic seeing.
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