Approaching Nowhere

ISBN: 9780393062748

出版社: W W Norton & Co Inc

出版年: 2006-9

页数: 160

定价: 469.00元

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Like many Americans who grew up during the spread of sprawl - with its predictable landscape of housing developments, shopping malls, interstate highways and big-box construction - acclaimed photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless, franchised American landscape. This collection of evocative images of buildings and places seen from the American road began as a cultural geography of Main Streets and became a visual critique of the myth of upward mobility that created this car-centred, paved-over universe. Some images look outward to the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature. Others turn inward, documenting the devastated inner cities. All of them reflect the complex beauty and desolation of visual life in America today.