The Dailies collect snapshots of a world unmistakably ours but just as strange. Made through Thomas Demand's renowned practice of building, photographing and destroying meticulous paper models, this series captures small everyday moments based on iPhone photography.
Viewed together, they are an inventory of traces: signs of consumption, evidence of people just gone or out of sight, specters of things left behind. Demand describes the series as a form of Haiku: simple snippets pieced together to inspire reflection and help us take stock of our daily lives.
Just as they provoke déjà vu through their minimally accomplished repetition, they ask us to look again, and again, to discover an ordinary but illuminating beauty. This new volume brings together the entire Demand series to date in one expanded edition interwoven with a lengthy essay by critic Hal Foster.
Flexi-bound hardcover with inset image
21.5 x 24.5cm
96 pages
