Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 2361950944 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fantastic Content; Presentation Resembles a Text Book That Has Been Discarded Into a Students’ Locker LeTU MBA This book is completely apropos for coffee table display in your finest living rooms!The subject matter contained in this book underscores the value that our society places upon buildings; functional today, decaying beyond repair tomorrow.The author displays properties in their current state and offers a succinct description of what the building was used for and how it may have began to become a statistic of urban decay. The images are astonishing and they provoke. Jamie Melton said Great book!. The book is far more than I expected. The photographs in the book are nicely done. I have seen most of the photographs on Facebook prior to the books release. However the photographs on Facebook did not have the stories about the places pictured. The book includes the stories behind the places. I do wish the text were bigger in the book. I also wish the book was available in digital format so that I can enjoy it wherever I am via my phone or tablet. Additionally I. Click buy now! Greatly worth it! I never placed books or anything on my coffee table until now! ashli I am ashamed at the amount of time I spend looking at abandoned places online and when I found this book I was in heaven. I will be purchasing more! This is the best book ever!!! I love that I get history on the places photographed and done so beautifully. If you are considering purchasing, DO IT! check out the facebook page too it is wonderful. Can you please go to Detroit for me Matthew Christopher. :)
Hershey Medical Center, Preservation Austin, and many others, and his work has been in dozens of publications and media outlets including the LA Times, ABC and NBC News, PDN, The Atlantic, Photographer's Forum, the Weather Channel, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, the Daily Mail, NY Daily News, and more. Matthew has an MFA in Fine Art Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology and has taught photography at a college level. . His w
They are the remnants of a nearly forgotten past. Exploring sites like the charred remains of the Hotel Do De, the rusted cells of the Essex County Jail Annex, the majesty of the Church of the Transfiguration, or the eerie and dilapidated remnants of the New Castle Elks Lodge, the work spans architectural treasures left to the elements and then all too often lost forever.With 240 pages of beautiful photographs, a foreword by celebrated author James Howard Kunstler, and detailed historical background on each site, Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences is sure to captivate anyone with an interest in the modern ruins in our midst.. They are some of America's last standing vestiges of our industrial age, the buildings that put our forefathers to work.Now, broken and ruined, these places are documented in Christopher's book, Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences. The locations presented are the monuments to America's great ambition and crumbl
It’s about time, nature, mortality, disinvestment.” Joann Greco, The Atlantic Cities“Through his photographs, Christopher makes a powerful statement about job loss, urban blight and historic preservation. “Matthew Christopher’s photographic record of decay depicts the tragic truth: that something extraordinary has ended and that nothing like it may ever come back. His pictures make me feel like someone told me a secret.” Jane Derenowski, Reporter, NBC Nightly News“It’s romantic, it’s nostalgic, it’s wistful, it’s provocative. We’re now going in the other direction despite a lot of wishful thinking: toward a loss of complexity, a reduction in the scale of activity, a loss of artistry, and probably the end of many com