Further adventures in dystopian and fantastical cities with Giacomo Costa, virtuoso of digitally manipulated, ultra-detailed photography
Since the mid-1990s, when he debuted his
Agglomerati
series, Florentine photographer Giacomo Costa (born 1970) has been creating large-format photographs that employ Hollywood blockbuster–style digital techniques to portray unreal, fantastical cityscapes straight out of science fiction.
In 2009 Damiani published
The Chronicles of Time
, with an introduction by Norman Foster. By turns historical and contemporary, real and imagined, the images in
could be the result of natural catastrophe or nuclear war. His latest monograph,
A Helpful Guide to Nowhere
, presents his latest fascinating, majestic and terrifying images of ominous yet nondidactic dystopias and cityscapes, focusing on work from the last ten years, with numerous previously unpublished images.