Shards of America / Phil Bergerson ; introduction by David Harris.

Main entry:

Bergerson, Phil, photographer.

Title & Author:

Shards of America / Phil Bergerson ; introduction by David Harris.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Quantuck Lane Press, [2004]
Verona : Mondadori Printing

Description:

135 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm

Summary:

"In Shards of America, Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson offers a detailed sequence of more than one hundred images from neglected corners of American's towns and small cities, creating a 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. From abandoned storefronts with remnants of decades-old advertisements, to present-day New York City newstands shouting their headlines over the noise, Bergerson's outsider's eye brings us up close to the tiny details of streets and roadsides that can be so easy to miss when you pass by them every day."
"The minutiae of daily life - paintings and movie posters, dime-store novels and daily newspapers, figurines and mannequins, decals and stenciled graffiti - here are laid out as artifacts pointing to a bigger vision of the world as we know it. 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 surroundings might appear in a hundred or more years' time."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

1593720106
9781593720100

Subject:

Signs and signboards United States Pictorial works.
Show windows United States Pictorial works.
Photography, Artistic.
Enseignes États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Vitrines États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Manners and customs
Show windows
Signs and signboards
Affiche.
Enseigne extérieure.
Étalage.
Graffiti.
United States Social life and customs Pictorial works.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes Ouvrages illustrés.
United States
États-Unis.

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Illustrated works
Photobooks.
Photographie (Descripteur de forme)
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Harris, David, 1950- writer of introduction.
Lindgren, Laura, book designer.
Quantuck Lane Press, publisher.
Arnoldo Mondadori editore, printer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238091
Call No.: BIB 167946
Status: Available

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