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Claude Hohl, Tehran, 2002,
color photograph, various sizes (detail), courtesy of the
artist
This work is part of Claude Hohl's metropolitan and beach
series, in which he re-photographs images of places that he
has never traveled to. In their original context, 1970s
illustrated books, the source images are charged with
utopian promises and a criticism of the western capitalist
system. They offered idealistic possibilities for improving
economic prosperity all over the world-an ambition that
turned out to be mirage-like.