Offering a visual critique of the American myth of upward mobility, a noted photographer offers a series of images focusing on our car-centered, paved-over society, with evocative studies of the devastated inner cities and the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature.
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Jeff Brouws is a fine art photographer and part-time writer who has nine books to his credit, authoring five on railroad photography alone. He has been published in Trains, the NRHS Bulletin and the R&LHS Quarterly. A book of his own photographs, Approaching Nowhere (also from W. W. Norton) was published in 2006. His photographs can be found in major institutional collections around the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Harvard's Fogg Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Anbieter: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, USA
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Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Artikel-Nr. 39517243-6
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Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 160 pages. 11.75x12.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. Artikel-Nr. 0393062740
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Anbieter: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. First printing, with full number line. SIGNED by Brouws on half-title page (as pictured). A mint unread copy, new, pristine. This book began as a cultural geography of Main Streets and became a visual critique of the myth of upward mobility that created this car-centered, paved-over universe. Some of the images in this book look outward to the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature. Others turn inward, documenting the devastated inner cities. All of the stunning color photographs reflect the complex beauty and desolation of visual life in our time. Photography. Quarto. Ferry-Art. Signed by Author(s). Artikel-Nr. tc1006-4
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Anbieter: BUCHSERVICE / ANTIQUARIAT Lars Lutzer, Wahlstedt, Deutschland
Hardcover. Zustand: gut. Jeff Brouws - Approaching Nowhere. Photographs In englischer Sprache. pages. Artikel-Nr. BN216345
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Anbieter: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, USA
First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 159 pages. Number 20 of only 99 copies. Essays by William L. Fox and Brouws. A collection of 100 color images taken throughout America all largely absent of people. A very fine copy in a very fine cloth slipcase and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap slit open for inspection. Numbered and signed by Brouws on the limitation page. Includes an original archival pigment print of "Highway 196, Rowley Junction, Utah, 1995. Print is in fine condition and is numbered and signed by Brouws on the verso. Uncommon. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Signed. Artikel-Nr. 204461
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