Wilted Country - Hardcover
In the years following World War II, the National Highway System began to expand into the American West, improving trade and bringing with it tourists from the East Coast. Along these new thoroughfares grew several small communities hoping to cash in on this sudden influx. But by century’s end, many of these upstart communities had failed, and huge numbers of their residents had left in search of another livelihood.
But what happens to these communities when all the people have disappeared? In late 2008 Swiss-born and American-educated photographer Roger Eberhard set out on a road trip to find out. With camera in tow, Eberhard journeyed from Reno to Montana, on to North and South Dakota, then south to Texas. Along the way he encountered—and captured on film—several remnants of a once bustling past, from toppled water towers and boarded-up businesses to abandoned homes hidden behind overgrown lawns. Eberhard’s resulting images explore the enduring impact that humans have on their landscape and simultaneously offer an evocative tour through the past and present of the storied American West.
Wilted Country collects the best of Eberhard’s images in a single volume and complements them with critical essays on the artist’s craft by Anthony Bannon, the director of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, and Benedict Wells, a young German novelist.
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Roger Eberhard is one of the most recognized contemporary Swiss photographers. He is the founder of b.frank books, a Swiss publishing house based in Zurich, which presents the work of young photographic artists from around the world.
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- PublisherScheidegger and Spiess
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 3858813060
- ISBN 13 9783858813060
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages80
- EditorKeller Walter
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Roger Eberhard, Swiss-born and American-educated photographer, conceives his works as series, taking-up impulses and inspirations for new projects from any possible source, such as a story he learns about or media reports catching his attention. He is particularly fascinated by people in the landscape, or rather the absence of mankind from a place leaving it again to nature and weather. But he has also done series of portraits of people in their given environment. Some series he has created in collaboration with other artists. In late 2008 Eberhard set out for a campaign searching for the visually lyrical backstage of the United States. His road-trip stared in Reno, Nevada, and led him through the states of Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming to Denver, Colorado. From there he continued his journey to Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and finally across Arizona back to Nevada. The resulting series Wilted Country is published for the first time in this book. The resulting, highly atmospheric photographs show the enduring impact humans have on their landscape and simultaneously offer an evocative tour through the past and present of the American West. The images are accompanied by essays by Anthony Bannon, director of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY, and by the young German novelist Benedict Wells. Text in English & German. AUTHORS: Roger Eberhard, born 1984 in Zurich, graduated in photography from the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA, in 2007. He lives and works as free-lance photographic artist in Berlin and Zurich. Walter Keller lives and works as free-lance publicist in Zurich, where he also runs an art gallery. He was formerly publisher of Scalo publishers in Zurich and New York City. Benedict Wells, born 1984 in Munich, lives and works as a writer in Berlin. His highly acclaimed first novel 'Becks letzter Sommer' was published in 2008, his second, 'Spinner', in 2009 (Diogenes Verlag, Zurich, both in German). 45 colour illustrations Atmospheric images of a landscape deserted by mankind and recaptured by nature: an evocative tour through the past and present of the American West. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9783858813060
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