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Roadside America
By: Margolies, John (By (photographer)), Heimann, Jim (Edited by), Peatross, C. Ford (Author), Patton, Phil (Author).
Taschen GmbH. Published: 10/03/2010. Audience Guide: General (US: Trade). Hardback. Sourced from NZ.
This title presents roadside Americana, fantasy, kitsch and joy on the American roadside. 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 artisanal to eccentric, from deliciously kitsch to quasi-psychedelic. Photographer John Margolies spent decades documenting these eye-catching and endearingly idiosyncratic examples of roadside advertising and fantasy structures, a fast-fading form of Americana. This book brings together approximately 400 color photographs arranged into chapters by subject: Main Street signs, movie theaters, gas stations, fast food restaurants, motels, roadside attractions, miniature golf, and Atlantic coast resorts. In an age when online shopping and mega-malls have reconfigured American consumerism, Margolies' 30-year survey reminds us of a more innocent, unpredictable and colorful past. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 3836511738/9783836511735
TITLE: Roadside America CONTRIBUTORS: Margolies, John (By (photographer)), Heimann, Jim (Edited by), Peatross, C. Ford (Author), Patton, Phil (Author) IMPRINT: Taschen GmbH PUBLISHER: Taschen GmbH FORMAT: Hardback PUBLICATION DATE: 10/03/2010
SUBJECT: Architecture, Photography, Structure & Design, Collections DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 316mm x 265mm (Spine: 30mm) PAGES: 260 AUDIENCE GUIDE: General (US: Trade) ILLUSTRATIONS: illustrations
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