God's-Eye View of Colossal Cityscapes (The Village Voice)

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Even with the best special effects, those miniature cities that Godzilla destroys on-screen never get the scale quite right. Barbieri's cunning photographs of Las Vegas and Rome subvert make-believe worlds by reducing colossal cityscapes to soft-focus vignettes that feel like a filmmaker's scaled-down sets. Shooting from helicopters with a large-format camera, the artist zeroes in on such

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