STRANGE RITUAL David Byrne

Pictures and Words

Chronicle Book San Francisco, 1995

Hardcover. Fine Condition. Bound in the publisher’s original black imitation leather with title stamped in gilt on the cover and spine. Publisher’s promotional banner printed in color wrapped around the cover. A collage of photographs and texts that bounces back and forth between religious places and objects around the world, the mise-en-scène of sales and display and pieces that attempt to pull those two worlds together. An attempt to recognize what sorts of rituals, superstitious habits and spiritual auras can be found in the contemporary world.

Copertina rigida, pp 192. Una raccolta di fotografie dello scrittore e compositore David Byrne (Talking Heads). La raccolta è accompagnata dal resoconto di Byrne sulla sua selezione delle immagini e sul loro significato. Testo in inglese.