Hard Cover, German / English / Dutch, Thread Stitching, 592 Pages, 2024, Roma Publications
Parallel Encyclopedia
A voluminous book containing a precise composition of images from other books. The result of a long term investigation, this voluminous encyclopaedia contains solely images collected from other books, and reads as an exhilarating and extremely rich filmic sequence. Suter's interest lies not only in the iconographic value of images and the way that the human brain processes visual information, but also the causes by which images become charged with associative values.
Auf fast 600 Seiten zeigt der Band einige tausend schwarz-weiß gedruckte Bilder aus unzähligen Quellen, unterschiedlichsten Epochen und allen Feldern, die für das Leben auf unserem Planeten von Bedeutung sein könnten. Dinosaurier, Thermoskannen, Pyramiden, Schiffsbau und Luftfahrt, Mode, Pferdezucht, Pflanzenkunde, Menschenbild, Atomkraft ... die Liste ist unendlich. With supplement by Paul Elliman: I pass. like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech. published in 2007