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The new heartland : looking for the American dream / Andrew Borowiec ; with an essay by David Giffels.
Fine Arts Library TR660.5 .B67 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borowiec, Andrew, 1956- author, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Borowiec, Andrew, 1956-.
- Borowiec, Andrew.
- Ohio--Pictorial works.
- Ohio.
- Suburban life--Ohio--Pictorial works.
- Suburban life.
- Architectural photography--Ohio.
- Architectural photography.
- Documentary photography--Ohio.
- Documentary photography.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Landscape photography--Ohio--21st century.
- Landscape photography.
- Ohio--Social conditions--21st century--Pictorial works.
- art photography.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- photobooks.
- Photobooks
- Pictorial works
- Photobooks.
- Physical Description:
- 95 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 x 31 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Staunton, VA : George F. Thompson Publishing ; [Santa Fe, NM] : In association with the Center for the Study of Place, 2021.
- Summary:
- During the past thirty years, there has emerged throughout America a new kind of urban vision that blends residential/suburban development with large-scale commercial centers. Rolling farmland and country estates that used to surround towns and cities have given way to vast housing developments that feature nearly identical, hastily built mini-mansions with enormous garages and fancy yards. These are the new bedroom communities for middle-class Americans who commute to urban America where the jobs are. For the first time, these residential enclaves are linked to big-box shopping complexes where traditional Main Streets of yore have been eclipsed by malls known as "lifestyle centers" filled with national chains whose commercial architecture is a blend of multiple historic periods and styles that create a fanciful display but have no relation to regional traditions. Behind this imagined past era of luxurious consumerism is a ubiquitous culture based on global marketing in which homogenization and conformity have won over the American dream and created a new kind of American heartland. Andrew Borowiec is the first photographer to provide a comprehensive vision of this new American landscape. He directs our attention toward how such development has evolved in his home state of Ohio, a longstanding bellwether for American tastes and values whose citizens have voted for every winning candidate in a presidential election but one since 1944. It's also the place where fast-food companies test-market new products and the place where chewing gum, Teflon, and the first airplane, cash register, gas-powered automobile, traffic signal, and vacuum cleaner were invented.
- ISBN:
- 9781938086199
- 1938086198
- OCLC:
- 1263758627
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