Thessaloniki - Istanbul Exhibit Catalog Released

Sept. 15, 2012 - PRLog -- ALBUQUERQUE, NM. Architectural Legacies: Thessaloniki - Istanbul, Four Hundred Years of Interwoven History was first exhibited at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico in 2012.  This catalog includes reproductions of all 26 original panels with additional annotation.  The panels contain over 365 images by author and photographer Mark Forte.

From the text:
I believe that our image of a city is like a spider web, structured with long radiating lines, which help us give meaning to the city by connecting us at the center to the greater world around us.  These lines are rooted in ourselves and in our understanding of the world.  We connect these anchoring lines with many lateral lines of gathered information and experiences, giving us a deeper understanding of the whole. Like a spider web, our image is strong, yet gossamer.  It is mostly empty, in fact.  And like the spider itself, we must constantly reconstruct our web, filling gaps and strengthening it as experience allows.  Still, the web remains mostly empty, relying on our understanding of the world to complete the image.

About the Photographer
Mark Forte received a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and a Masters of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.  He currently teaches at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning.

Architectural Legacies: Thessaloniki - Istanbul, Four Hundred Years of Interwoven History , A Photographic Essay
Images and Text by Mark Forte
 • $39.95 paperback • $49.95 Hardback• $6.99 iPad e-book
 • 64 pages
 • 8” x 10”
 • Available through Blurb.com
 • Publication Date: August 2012

More information at http://www.markforte.com/Exhibitions/IST-SKG/index.html