Waikiki
by Henry Wessel
Steidl
Waikiki, one of Honolulu’s most famous neighbourhoods, had already become a crowded tourist destination when Wessel photographed there in the late seventies and early eighties. This book contains Wessel’s edit of these pictures and is a record of American leisure at this time: of surf, sand and inexhaustible pleasure seekers. Yet Wessel equally explores the contradictions of Waikiki – concrete hotels invading pristine beaches, culture encroaching on nature. Despite all the fun in the sun, Wessel’s subjects are often distanced and dissatisfied, suggesting an underlying unease.
- Price
- UK £50.00
- US $85.00
- EC €58.00
- 60 pages
- 29.5 cm x 29.5 cm
- Clothbound hardcover with a tipped-in photo
- Steidl
- ISBN: 978-3-86930-300-0
- Publication date: July 2011
