Ladd, Jeffrey, compiler.

A field measure survey of American architecture / Jeffrey Ladd.

First edition.

[London, England] : MACK, [2021]
©2021

362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Drawing from the nearly half a million photographs and documents comprising the Historic American Buildings Survey held in the US Library of Congress, this book constructs a fictional ?one-way road trip? across the United States, weaving north and south across the Mason-Dixon line while tacking west. In A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture, Jeffrey Ladd uses the HABS archive as a surrogate in order to manifest a portrait of his former country at a moment when its democracy seems imperiled.00Inspired equally by the social documentary work of Walker Evans and the architectural interventions of Gordon Matta-Clark and others, Ladd embraces the muteness of photographs to create an ambiguous space where the sculptural, political, forensic, and fictional coalesce within a landscape of both beauty and fragility. What initially appears to be a single voice is revealed to belong to dozens of makers; what seems a description of the distant past is revealed to be closer to the present than expected. A Field Measure Survey sheds light not only on this remarkable archive but on the proliferate meanings that can be shaped from its images.

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Historic American Buildings Survey.
Architectural photography United States.
Abandoned houses United States Pictorial works.
Abandoned buildings United States Pictorial works.
Historic buildings United States Pictorial works.
Black-and-white photography United States.
Architecture, American History.
Maisons abandonnées États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Constructions abandonnées États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie d'architecture États-Unis.
Architecture américaine Histoire.
Photographie en noir et blanc États-Unis.
Black-and-white photography
Abandoned buildings
Abandoned houses
Architectural photography
Architecture, American
Historic buildings
United States

photobooks.
Photobooks
History
Pictorial works
Livres de photographies.

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