American Ruins: Ghosts on the Landscape
by Maxwell MacKenzie
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Author: Maxwell MacKenzieEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-06-01
ISBN: 1890434418
Number of pages: 79
Publisher: Afton Historical Society Press
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Book Review: The best landscape photographer in the world
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the book for people who didn't think that they liked landscape photography. MacKenzie takes you through a voyage to the abandoned worlds of farms, schools and other building in the middle of the nowhere lands of midwestern America. Here we find that ruined farmhouse, strangely sculpted by the winds and snow of many winters, but not depicted as some quaint, picturesque image, but as a stark vision in long Puritan panoramic views that work to make the landscapes appear as through they are suspended in time, a strange reminder of once active places, now abandoned and ruined, but notheless spectacular in their setting. This is the photographer that will make you throw away your Nan Goldins and your Cindy Shermans and discover what is it that makes photography the newest vibrant member of the visual fine arts.
Summary of American Ruins: Ghosts on the Landscape
One of the most important architectural photographers working today, MacKenzie chronicles a fast-disappearing manifestation of the American Dream---the eloquent remains of barns, houses, and schools erected by immigrant settlers. His crisp black-and-white prints provide a poignant reminder that architecture sometimes becomes most evocative when it slips toward ruin.Architectural Books
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