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Strangely Familiar

Strangely Familiar

hardcover English 65 pages

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Peter Mitchell’s *Strangely Familiar* is a 2013 photobook published by Nazraeli Press, comprising 65 pages of fine-art photography. Its catalogued subjects—artistic photography, architectural photography, and pictorial works—place the book within a tradition of looking at built space not simply as documentation, but as material for photographic interpretation.

The title suggests a productive tension: places and structures may appear recognizable while remaining subtly displaced from ordinary experience. Within that premise, Mitchell’s work can be approached as an inquiry into how architecture becomes image—how scale, surface, repetition, and context alter what seems familiar. The book’s significance lies in this meeting of architectural subject matter and pictorial attention, where the photograph is not merely a record of a site but a constructed encounter with it.

For collectors, *Strangely Familiar* deserves attention as a clearly identified collaboration between Mitchell’s photographic practice and Nazraeli Press’s fine-art publishing program. Its concise 65-page extent gives the project a focused scope, while the hardcover format places it firmly in the tradition of the authored photography book rather than an incidental catalog of buildings. The volume is in English and is identified by ISBN 9781590053539, with 1590053532 as its ISBN-10 counterpart.

What distinguishes the book is the way its subject categories leave room for both architectural reading and pictorial interpretation. It belongs to the 2010s yet addresses a durable photographic question: how an ordinary environment can become strange through framing, selection, and sequence. For a serious collection, it offers a compact example of contemporary architectural photography understood as an artistic language, with Mitchell’s name, the Nazraeli imprint, and the book’s precise bibliographic identity giving it a stable place in the field.

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