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Some people watch the city. Rory Vance lets it watch back.
From a shoebox apartment five stories above a Manhattan alley, Rory Vance documents the city after dark. A camera, a recorder, a flask, and a creed: do not judge, only witness. He photographs the dreamers and the discarded, the hustlers and the lost, and tells himself the lens keeps him clean. Detachment is his religion. Observation is his alibi.
Then the night begins to look back.
Concrete Mirrors follows a man who has spent years convinced he stands outside the frame. A cryptic mentor presses him to photograph not the decay but the mending. A colder figure draws him into a series of underground social experiments designed to prove that everyone, including the watcher, has a price. As the line between recording a life and steering one dissolves, Rory catches his own reflection in shop windows and no longer recognizes it. The detachment that protected him starts to read like a different kind of hunger.
This is a noir-tinged character study of voyeurism, moral erosion, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep our hands clean. It asks the quiet, dangerous question at the heart of every observer: when you spend your life framing other people, what, exactly, are you building, brick by careful brick?
A literary descent into the ethics of watching.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Some people watch the city. Rory Vance lets it watch back.From a shoebox apartment five stories above a Manhattan alley, Rory Vance documents the city after dark. A camera, a recorder, a flask, and a creed: do not judge, only witness. He photographs the dreamers and the discarded, the hustlers and the lost, and tells himself the lens keeps him clean. Detachment is his religion. Observation is his alibi.Then the night begins to look back.Concrete Mirrors follows a man who has spent years convinced he stands outside the frame. A cryptic mentor presses him to photograph not the decay but the mending. A colder figure draws him into a series of underground social experiments designed to prove that everyone, including the watcher, has a price. As the line between recording a life and steering one dissolves, Rory catches his own reflection in shop windows and no longer recognizes it. The detachment that protected him starts to read like a different kind of hunger.This is a noir-tinged character study of voyeurism, moral erosion, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep our hands clean. It asks the quiet, dangerous question at the heart of every observer: when you spend your life framing other people, what, exactly, are you building, brick by careful brick?A literary descent into the ethics of watching. For readers of the urban interiority of Teju Cole's Open City, the psychological unease of Patricia Highsmith, and the city-as-character noir of Paul Auster. Some people watch the city. Rory Vance lets it watch back. A noir-tinged literary descent into voyeurism, moral erosion, and the cost of always being the one behind the lens. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798950343209
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Some people watch the city. Rory Vance lets it watch back.From a shoebox apartment five stories above a Manhattan alley, Rory Vance documents the city after dark. A camera, a recorder, a flask, and a creed: do not judge, only witness. He photographs the dreamers and the discarded, the hustlers and the lost, and tells himself the lens keeps him clean. Detachment is his religion. Observation is his alibi.Then the night begins to look back.Concrete Mirrors follows a man who has spent years convinced he stands outside the frame. A cryptic mentor presses him to photograph not the decay but the mending. A colder figure draws him into a series of underground social experiments designed to prove that everyone, including the watcher, has a price. As the line between recording a life and steering one dissolves, Rory catches his own reflection in shop windows and no longer recognizes it. The detachment that protected him starts to read like a different kind of hunger.This is a noir-tinged character study of voyeurism, moral erosion, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep our hands clean. It asks the quiet, dangerous question at the heart of every observer: when you spend your life framing other people, what, exactly, are you building, brick by careful brick A literary descent into the ethics of watching. For readers of the urban interiority of Teju Cole's Open City, the psychological unease of Patricia Highsmith, and the city-as-character noir of Paul Auster. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798950343209
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Some people watch the city. Rory Vance lets it watch back.From a shoebox apartment five stories above a Manhattan alley, Rory Vance documents the city after dark. A camera, a recorder, a flask, and a creed: do not judge, only witness. He photographs the dreamers and the discarded, the hustlers and the lost, and tells himself the lens keeps him clean. Detachment is his religion. Observation is his alibi.Then the night begins to look back.Concrete Mirrors follows a man who has spent years convinced he stands outside the frame. A cryptic mentor presses him to photograph not the decay but the mending. A colder figure draws him into a series of underground social experiments designed to prove that everyone, including the watcher, has a price. As the line between recording a life and steering one dissolves, Rory catches his own reflection in shop windows and no longer recognizes it. The detachment that protected him starts to read like a different kind of hunger.This is a noir-tinged character study of voyeurism, moral erosion, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep our hands clean. It asks the quiet, dangerous question at the heart of every observer: when you spend your life framing other people, what, exactly, are you building, brick by careful brick?A literary descent into the ethics of watching. For readers of the urban interiority of Teju Cole's Open City, the psychological unease of Patricia Highsmith, and the city-as-character noir of Paul Auster. Some people watch the city. Rory Vance lets it watch back. A noir-tinged literary descent into voyeurism, moral erosion, and the cost of always being the one behind the lens. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798950343209
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Some people watch the city. Rory Vance lets it watch back.From a shoebox apartment five stories above a Manhattan alley, Rory Vance documents the city after dark. A camera, a recorder, a flask, and a creed: do not judge, only witness. He photographs the dreamers and the discarded, the hustlers and the lost, and tells himself the lens keeps him clean. Detachment is his religion. Observation is his alibi.Then the night begins to look back.Concrete Mirrors follows a man who has spent years convinced he stands outside the frame. A cryptic mentor presses him to photograph not the decay but the mending. A colder figure draws him into a series of underground social experiments designed to prove that everyone, including the watcher, has a price. As the line between recording a life and steering one dissolves, Rory catches his own reflection in shop windows and no longer recognizes it. The detachment that protected him starts to read like a different kind of hunger.This is a noir-tinged character study of voyeurism, moral erosion, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep our hands clean. It asks the quiet, dangerous question at the heart of every observer: when you spend your life framing other people, what, exactly, are you building, brick by careful brick?A literary descent into the ethics of watching. For readers of the urban interiority of Teju Cole's Open City, the psychological unease of Patricia Highsmith, and the city-as-character noir of Paul Auster. Some people watch the city. Rory Vance lets it watch back. A noir-tinged literary descent into voyeurism, moral erosion, and the cost of always being the one behind the lens. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798950343209
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