Lost in the City by Nicholas Sack.

This new book Lost in the City, which has an introductory text by Iain Sinclair, is a compilation of recent photographs taken by Nicholas Sack. This photographer, influenced by the work of Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, has gone all over the financial district of London for 30 years collecting the contrast between workers and the context given by the modern architecture of the city in his black and white images.

“The City is a backdrop I can play geometric games with”, he says. “It’s quite an odd conjunction: these uniformed figures are in many cases overpowered by the buildings.”

The images, in which people appear alone and alienated, transmit a feeling of uneasiness and invite to think about the situation of alienation and uncertainty that can exist in a big city like London.

“They might have been perfectly happy”, says Sack. “But by setting them against this rather anonymous architecture it lifts the everyday to a state of dislocation and otherworldliness.”

DATA SHEET.-

Introduction.- Iain Sinclair.
Pages.- 96 pp, gold foiled.
Cover.- Hardcover.
Size.- 145 x 205 mm.
Vendor.- Hoxton Mini Press.