Roadside America : architectural relics from a vanishing past = Architektonische Relikte einer vergangenen Epoche = reliques architecturales d'une époque disparque / John Margolies ; edited by Jim Heimann ; foreword by C. Ford Peatross ; introduction by Phil Patton.

Main entry:

Margolies, John.

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Description:

254 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 x 32 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Foreword in English, French, and German.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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. PhotographerJohn 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.--From publisher description.

ISBN:

9783836511735 (hardcover)
3836511738 (hardcover)

Subject:

Margolies, John Bildband.
Margolies, John.
Roadside architecture United States Pictorial works.
Signs and signboards United States Pictorial works.
Architecture United States Aesthetics Pictorial works.
Architectural photography United States.
Photography, Artistic.
Constructions des abords de route États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture États-Unis Esthétique Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie d'architecture États-Unis.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Architectural photography.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Roadside architecture.
Signs and signboards.
Werbung Strassenrand USA Bildband.
Strassenrand Werbung USA Bildband.
Werbung Monumentalität USA Bildband.
Monumentalität Werbung USA Bildband.
Werbung Motiv Photographie USA Bildband.
Photographie Motiv Werbung USA Bildband.
Plastik.
Architekturphotographie.
Monumentalplastik.
Commercial buildings United States Pictorial works.
Architecture United States Pictorial works.
Artistic photography.
United States Pictorial works.
United States.
USA.

Form/genre:

Pictorial Work.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Heimann, Jim, 1948-
Peatross, C. Ford.
Patton, Phil.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 291275
Call No.: BIB 234754
Status: Available

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