23 x 31 cm

ISBN 978-3-906027-92-0

Austrian photographer Gisela Erlacher, who also studied cinematography in Vienna, is fascinated by hybrid, improvised urban situations. With public space being under increasing pressure in today’s world of global acceleration and urbanization, spaces we are unconscious of edge ever more into focus. In her project Skies of Concrete she shows spaces and spatial situations that result from the construction of bridges or from the appropriation of spaces under them.

Erlacher has photographed such non-spaces in China, Great Britain, Netherlands, and Austria. They are characterized by being situated under a structure and by the stunning spatial configurations resulting from this. This new book presents for the first time a selection of Erlacher’s striking photographs that allow multiple levels of reading. The essays by Lilli Lička and Peter Lodermeyer speak eloquently about her work and the spaces her images capture.

"If you’ve traveled to cities such as Shanghai, London, or Amsterdam, chances are you’ve noticed expressways and bridges that take over like the long arms of an octopus. Gisela Erlacher noticed them, too, although the photographer started to pay closer attention to what was happening beneath these concrete structures rather than what was on top of them." David Rosenberg, BEHOLD The Photo Blog slate.com