FAST CITY (2ND. ED.)

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Nyutgivelse! Morten Andersens første fotobok, Fast City, ble gitt ut for 20 år siden, og har vært utsolgt og ettertrakta på samlermarkedet internasjonalt i flere år.

Happy-Tom skriver i pressemeldingen til utgivelsen i 1999:

«— He knows the streets, and the winners and losers and in-betweens and up-and-comers and down-and outers which inhabit them. He takes on the city like a distant pimp, creating a mega-gestalt out of the bits and pieces that make up the visual cortex of his voyeristic suburban mind, cunningly blending in the timeless taboos of witchcraft and pollution into the thousands of colours that make up gray, feeding of the collective high voltage lines of history like a culture vulture, treating the city with the simultaneousreverence and disdain of a Mark Chapman-esque fan-cum-assassin, dealing with a city that he loves and loathes. »

Bokas bildespråk markerte et skille i norsk fotografi, og også internasjonalt. Som en av fire norske fotobøker ble Fast City tatt med i Martin Parr og Gerry Badgers referanseverk «The photobook; A history vol. 3»; “Ultimately, however, Fast City is an edgy but nevertheless affectionate portrait of a city Andersen felt had been underphotographed in a serious way. — Fast City is a remarkably expressive portrait of a city and a lifestyle, and is also notable for Andersen´s decision to combine colour with black and white, a combination that is uncommon even today but which back in 1999 was very rare indeed.” Gerry Badgers etterord i denne nye utgaven setter boka inn i en fotohistorisk sammenheng, og beskriver hva som er særegent Andersendsk og nyskapende ved den. «— To be sure, there is more than a whiff of Scandinavian gloom, but even that might only be a touch of irony. Certainly, Andersen’s vision exhibits neither the positivist energy of American City Noir photographers, not the frenetic angst of the Japanese, but something of both.»