Steven B Smith

The Weather and a Place to Live

Photographs of the Suburban West

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In compelling, often stunning black-and-white photographs, this text portrays the manmade landscape of the western United States--the surreal intersection of the American appetite for suburban development and the resistant, rolling, arid country of the desert West.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 260mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336112
• ISBN-10: 0822336111
• Artikelnr.: 21317257

Autorenporträt

Steven B. Smith is a Professor of Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. He was born in American Fork, Utah, and spent his early years in the small communities around Salt Lake City. He has been awarded a Guggenheim and an Aaron Siskind Fellowship for Photography. Maria Morris Hambourg, Founding Curator of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was the prize’s judge. Her career began at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she worked closely with John Szarkowski in the Department of Prints and Photographs. She has curated such exhibitions as Thomas Struth; Avedon’s Portraits; Walker Evans; Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn’s Nudes, 1949–1950; and Carleton Watkins, the Art of Perception.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / Maria Morris Hambourg 2
The Photographs 11
Index 116
Acknowledgments 119
About the Prize 121