John Margolies, Roadside America
The End of The Road?
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399,00 Kč |
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639,00 Kč |
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799,00 Kč |
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The native genius of America's mid-era automobile culture
Before
the advent of corporate communications and architectural uniformity,
America's built environment was a free-form landscape of individual
expression. Signs, artifacts, and even buildings ranged from
playful to eccentric, from deliciously cartoonish to quasipsychedelic.
Photographer John Margolies spent over three decades
and drove more than 100,000 miles documenting these fascinating and
endearingly artisanal examples of roadside advertising and fantasy
structures, a fast-fading aspect of Americana.
This book brings together approximately 400 color photographs
of Main Street signs, movie theaters, gas stations, fast food
restaurants, motels, roadside attractions, miniature golf courses,
dinosaurs, giant figures and animals, and fantasy coastal resorts. In an
age when online shopping and mega-malls have reconfigured American
consumerism, stripping away idiosyncracy in favor of a bland
homogeneity, Margolies's elegiac 30-year survey reminds us of a
more innocent unpredictable and colorful past.
About the photographer:
John Margolies is an author, photographer, and lecturer
on American architecture and design. For 30 years he has explored
America's highways in search of unique architecture. Author of a dozen
books, his photographs and articles have appeared in The New York
Times Magazine, Esquire, Domus and Architectural
Record.
About the editor:
Cultural anthropologist and graphic design historian Jim Heimann
is Executive Editor for TASCHEN America, and author of numerous books
on architecture, pop culture, and the history of the West Coast, Los
Angeles, and Hollywood. His unrivaled private collection of ephemera has
been featured in museum exhibitions around the world and dozens of
books.
About the author:
Phil Patton writes about car design for The New
York Times and is a contributing editor to ID magazine. He
was a consultant for Curves of Steel: Streamlined Automobile Design
at the Phoenix Art Museum, and Different Roads: Automobiles
for the Next Century at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
About the contributing author:
C. Ford Peatross is director of the Center for
Architecture, Design and Engineering in the Prints and Photographs
Division of the Library of Congress. He is the author of Eero
Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive (2008).
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