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Photographers are always negotiating between forms in the world and forms in the image, recording the world but also transforming it at the same time. The experience of place is often pared down in images. In a photograph that is pared down, one ends up with slightly hyper-realistic imagery—precise and clear, but the meaning is elusive.

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Interview by Rosencrans Baldwin

Places you thought were perfectly banal have secret identities. In his new book Topologies (Aperture), photographer Edgar Martins seeks them out, takes his time, and without any post-production trickery exposes what you missed, say, the last time you landed at J.F.K.