{"product_id":"boarding-pass-ari-marcopoulos","title":"Boarding Pass, Ari Marcopoulos","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAir travel has informed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eAri Marcopoulos\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’ life more than most. Beyond a necessary mode of transport, the passenger plane has proved something of quiet point of obsession for the Amsterdam-born, New York-based photographer and filmmaker.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore moving to New York in 1980 – where Marcopoulos would carve out a career defined by his raw and intimate renderings of some of America’s most significant subcultural protagonists – he spent much of his childhood flying with his father, a commercial airline pilot. A conversation with Marcopoulos reveals a fascination that still burns. He recalls wandering the tarmac, studying the underside of the wings and fuselage; he remembers riding in the cockpit on an overbooked flight en-route to a Euro Cup final; he flaunts an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of new, old and mothballed commercial airplanes – the Lockheed Super Constellation, Douglas DC-8 Stretch and the Boeing 737-MAX among them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoarding Pass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Marcopoulos’ new book for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eNieves\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerimeter Editions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, takes this experience of flight, and the machines that make it possible, as its defining motifs. Photographed over the last year while in transit, the characteristically intuitive, off-the-cuff images that populate this volume offer countless vantages – near and far – of airplanes on the tarmac or in flight, rerouting our gaze from the pragmatic and economic towards the poetic. Here, Marcopoulos appeals to the notion that flying – for all its supposed monotony – is still something close to a miracle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Perimeter Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e80 pages with postcard\u003cbr\u003e200 x 140 mm\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780648262886\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Perimeter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31830590324826,"sku":"BPAM","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/products\/boarding_pass_ari_marcopulos.jpg?v=1587559070","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/it\/products\/boarding-pass-ari-marcopoulos","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}