Synopses & Reviews
The 100 block of Vancouver’s West Hastings Street is the gateway to one of the most contested and controversial inner-city neighborhoods in North America—Vancouver’s infamous and impoverished downtown eastside.
Using the work of one of the art world’s most celebrated visual artists—Stan Douglas—the book unravels the dynamics of history and sociology, combined with photography and art, to create a compelling and visually arresting document that informs our understanding of what makes a neighborhood.
The book is based on a monumental-sized print of 100 West Hastings by Douglas, who photographed each building and composited the individual prints to assume a fantastic, impossible perspective. The print is reproduced in the book as a removable full-color poster.
Synopsis
Essays based on a monumental-sized photograph by preeminent visual artist Stan Douglas.
About the Author
Reid Shier is Curator of the Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver. He is past Director/Curator of the Or Gallery and was editor of Boo Magazine from 1994 to 1998. Stan Douglas is one of the art world's most acclaimed contemporary artists; he has been the subject of a Phaidon Press retrospective and has has exhibitions at DIA (New York), Contemporary Art Gallery of Los Angeles andthe Chicago Art Institute.