Shards of America - Hardcover

Bergerson, Phil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1593720106 ISBN 13: 9781593720100

Verlag: The Quantuck Lane Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Phil Bergerson David Harris

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Reseña del editor:

A shard is a fragment of broken pottery, often used by archaeologists to reconstruct objects from past civilizations. In Shards of America, Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has gathered richly detailed images from neglected corners of American's towns and small cities, and created a fascinating mosaic. Businesses, religious sects, and community groups announce their presence, offer their services, and pitch their messages, while commercial signs, graffiti, posters, and public notices blanket the surfaces of buildings and public spaces. Paintings and movie posters, dime-store novels and daily newspapers, figurines and mannequins, decals and stenciled graffiti, and children's letters and drawings are laid out as artifacts of a greater whole. Patriotism, consumerism, censorship, nostalgia for a simpler past coupled with a desire for a less complicated present...touching on all these themes, Bergerson's quietly ironic but empathetic tone encourages the reader to imagine how our own ordinary world might appear to viewers in a hundred or more years' time. 119 color photographs.

Biografía del autor:

Phil Bergerson has been a professor of photography at Ryerson University in Toronto since 1972.

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• Verlag: The Quantuck Lane Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1593720106
• ISBN 13: 9781593720100
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136