German photographer Peter Granser frames the bold and brilliant architecture of Freddy Mamani Silvestre in a new book, El Alto. This 24-page publication hones in on the pattern, shape and composition of the self-taught architect’s designs, which can be found in his hometown of El Alto, Bolivia.
Peter Granser was born in 1971 as an austrian citizen in Hannover, Germany. He is self-educated and lives in Stuttgart. Granser established already with his first project Sun Citya significant style and developed his work over the years.
In 2019 Granser received the Kubus. Sparda Audience Award for his exhibition at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart that showed an overview of his work of the last 10 years.
Granser´s work has been exhibited amongst many others at the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, FOAM Amsterdam, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Photo Espana, Kunsthalle Tuebingen, MAK Museum Wien, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen/Galerie, NGBK Berlin and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.
Pages 24
19 cm x 32 cm
Cover: die-cut cover
Essay: Winston Hampel
SECOND EDITION 2017
2016 EDITION TAUBE