Book DescriptionThis selection of 40 medium-format color photographs by Walter Niedermayr transports us into the world of perpetual ice--to Mount Titlis, the glacier which rises proudly above the boundaries of space and time, three thousand meters above sea level in the Swiss Alps Only the human figures in colorful leisure attire which populate озгоб this alpine Shangri-la bear witness to the influence of civilization, transforming the alpine landscape--once the paradigm of an aesthetics of the sublime--into a trivial theme park governed by the laws of consumption In Titlis, Niedermayr's camera captures the aura of a mountain landscape that is no longer just a mountain landscape but a legend The alpine setting in which the puppet-like figures of tourists appear are shaped by these clichés and bold idealizations of nature to such a great extent that subjective perception and feelings become mere platitudes If Jean Baudrillard were a tourist in the Alps with a knack for taking pictures, these arethe images he would make Paperback, 9 6 x 13 5 in /96 pgs / 55 color.  В пособии2004 г 96 стр ISBN 3775714057.