American Icons - Hardcover

Gottlieb, Steven

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570984018 ISBN 13: 9781570984013

Verlag: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2001

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Book by Gottlieb Steve

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A great book at any time, this moving work is especially poignant to consider now that most Americans are reexamining their lives and the very concept of America.--Mark Bay "Library Journal "

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A biker, festooned in ritual leather, astride a Harley. The New York skyline. A bison cow and calf shaking off the early Spring snow at Yellowstone National Park. The U. S. Capitol at dusk. The Pentagon from above. These are just a few of the 145 enduring images that comprise photographer Steve Gottlieb's tribute to things that are quintessentially American, from hot dogs at the ball park to the somber vigil of Marine guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery. Photographed over a period of two decades as part of what Gottlieb unapologetically refers to as an "icon odyssey," the images are organized into eleven distinct sections that portray both the heroic and the ordinary, the quietly symbolic and the overtly patriotic. Embellished with appropriate quotations from some of America's most insightful commentators, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Bill Bryson, the collective force of the images brings unity to the idea of the American experience. American Icons comprises, in the words of the photographer, "the people, places, and things that have, by virtue of history, nostalgia, culture, taste, topographical beauty, or simple familiarity, come to symbolize our country."

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• Verlag: Roberts Rinehart Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1570984018
• ISBN 13: 9781570984013
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192