In 1987 Aperture published Lynne Cohen's first monograph, Occupied
Territory, an exploration of space as simulated experience-an
ersatz reality, idealized and standardized. Now, Aperture is
pleased to release a newly expanded and updated reissue of this
classic monograph, making Cohen's pioneering work available to a
contemporary audience and situating her appropriately within the
lineage of Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore, and other widely celebrated
Topographic photographers. In the twenty years of work contained in
the book, Cohen turns her view camera toward classrooms, science
laboratories, testing facilities, waiting rooms, and other interior
spaces where function triumphs over aesthetics. What decorations
the inhabitants might have added to these rooms to make them more
inviting-mostly phony attempts at warmth or individualism-only
serve to amplify their artifice and uniformity. In cool, functional
offices, futuristic reception areas, lifeless party rooms, escapist
motel rooms, and haunting killing chambers, Cohen surveys a society
of surface, contradiction, and social engineering. In her hands,
clouds peel off walls and forest glades invade indoor tennis
courts, and the awkward lives of furniture are revealed. Drawing on
a background in sculpture, Cohen records the world's readymade
sculptures, waiting to be framed by the photograph. This new
edition of Occupied Territory includes a new text by Britt
Salvesen, and over fifteen unpublished images drawn from the book's
original time period of the '70s and '80s, encouraging a
reexamination of Cohen's deft exploration of Topographic seeing.
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