This artists book is based on Cyprien GaillardsGeographical Analogies,a collection of 900 Polaroids, carefully and rigorously arranged in a total of 100 showcases, telling many stories about landscapes, monuments, modernist buildings, and architectonic utopias, and just as many stories about decay, destruction, and devastation. As Rein Wolfs puts it in the introduction of this publicationGaillards epic work, outmodedly analogreflects a computation of time that seems to have disappeared. In the disintegrating medium of Polaroid photography the aspect of disappearance inherent to time is documented and allegedly temporarily halteduntil in foreseeable time these originals too will have disappeared beyond recallDecay, disappearance, remembrance and decline are omnipresent motifs in this workNumerous devastated concrete landscapes, unfinished holiday developments, monuments, ruins, modernist high-rise estates, cemeteries, landscapes andas a counterpointgolf courses s