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Conradin Frei
Dorade Royale

In the economic boom from the 1950s to the 1970s, beach holidays became affordable for the masses. On the Adriatic, Mediterranean, and Atlantic coasts, a gigantic infrastructure was built to create a stage set for the good times. Conradin Frei has photographed these dream factories on the beach for a number of years. He revels in the artifice of these places, their incongruous admixture of nature and civilisation, their crudely eclectic mixture of architectural styles. Dorade Royale is a poetic and playful visual travelogue, whose subtle mastery of colours ironically evokes the elusive utopias of bygone summers.

45 CHF
+ 5 CH
+ 8 EU
+ 10 WORLD

Conradin Frei; Dorade Royale; 136pp.; 232x310mm; Offset print; Text by Martin Jaeggi; Graphic Design by Studio Nüssli+Nuessli; Published by cpress, Zurich; Distributed by Idea Books, Amsterdam (World and cpress, Zurich (Switzerland); ISBN 978-3-907333-02-0; First Edition: 500 copies; CC-BY-NC-SA, 2022

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