Chaque Mercredi Caracas

2020

Chaque Mercredi Caracas presents a sequence of black and white images taken from the travel sections of the newspapers Le Monde and The New York Times, from the 1960s onwards. By focusing on visual representations of “the Other” in travel reportages and advertisements, the collection of images explores the relationship between colonialism and the evolution of mass tourism in the second half of the 20th century: A world that is within reach and ready for consumption. As an insert to the book, "Our Letters Crossed" responds to the images from today‘s perspective. In a collection of letters by friends in different parts of the world, each one addresses its sender’s experience of an unprecedented year, during wich we stopped traveling, at least physically. 2020 is an island that didn’t exist.

Edited by Noha Mokhtar, Xavier Nueno and Gregor Huber
Text by Xavier Nueno
In collaboration with Critical Media Practice, Harvard University

Black and white, 420 pages, print run of 250
Published by Edition Hors-Sujet, Zurich

CHF/EURO 25.-