Recollection.

Recollection. Photographs by Walter Niedermayr. Hatje Cantz, 2010. 170 pp., 90 colour illustrations, 17 foldouts, 26,1x30,2cm. Images from photo-eye.

Book description:

"Walter Niedermayr (born 1952) is among Europe’s finest contemporary photographers, a virtuoso in the portrayal of contemporary architecture and Alpine landscapes, whose subtle handling of scale, diffuse light effects and desaturated color has been much imitated in recent years.

Between 2005 and 2008, Niedermayr traveled in Iran, visiting Tehran, Isfahan, Yazd, Shiraz and other smaller cities and historical sites.

His travels spurred the undertaking of a new series examining Iranian architecture in its cultural and historical context, revealing its mingling of east and west as older buildings jostle with colorful billboards, beltways and apartment blocks that look as if they could be located anywhere in the world."