Approaching Nowhere: Photographs (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393062748)

Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawl--with its predictable landscape of housing developments, shopping malls, interstate highways, and big-box construction--acclaimed photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless, franchised American landscape. What began as cultural geography of Main Streets became a visual critique of the myth of upward mobility that created this car-centered, paved-over universe. Some images look outward to the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature. Others turn inward, documenting the devastated inner cities. All the stunning color photographs reflect the complex beauty and desolation of visual life in our time.

Author: Jeff Brouws
ISBN-10: 0393062740
ISBN-13: 9780393062748
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2006
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.36lbs
Size: 12.40h x 11.74w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 11/10/2006 pg. 87
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 316