Roadside America : architectural relics from a vanishing past = Architektonische Relikte einer vergangenen Epoche = reliques architecturales d'une époque disparque /
Margolies, John.
Roadside America : architectural relics from a vanishing past = Architektonische Relikte einer vergangenen Epoche = reliques architecturales d'une époque disparque / John Margolies ; edited by Jim Heimann ; foreword by C. Ford Peatross ; introduction by Phil Patton. - Köln, Germany : Taschen, c2010. - 254 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 x 32 cm.
Includes index.
Before the advent of corporate communications and architectural uniformity, America's built environment was a free-form landscape of individual expression. Signs, artifacts, and even buildings ranged from playful to eccentric, from deliciously cartoonish to quasipsychedelic. Photographer John Margolies spent over three decades and drove more than 100,000 miles documenting these fascinating and endearingly artisanal examples of roadside advertising and fantasy structures, a fast-fading aspect of Americana. This book brings together approximately 400 color photographs of main street signs, movie theaters, gas stations, fast food restaurants, motels, roadside attractions, miniature golf courses, dinosaurs, giant figures and animals, and fantasy coastal resorts. In an age when online shopping and mega-malls have reconfigured American consumerism, stripping away idiosyncracy in favor of a bland homogeneity, Margolies's elegiac 30-year survey reminds us of a more innocent, unpredictable and colorful past.--From publisher description.
Foreword in English, French, and German.
3836511738 9783836511735
Architectural photography--United States.
Architecture--Aesthetics--United States--Pictorial works.
Photography, Artistic.
Roadside architecture--United States--Pictorial works.
Signs and signboards--United States--Pictorial works.
United States--Pictorial works.
Roadside America : architectural relics from a vanishing past = Architektonische Relikte einer vergangenen Epoche = reliques architecturales d'une époque disparque / John Margolies ; edited by Jim Heimann ; foreword by C. Ford Peatross ; introduction by Phil Patton. - Köln, Germany : Taschen, c2010. - 254 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 x 32 cm.
Includes index.
Before the advent of corporate communications and architectural uniformity, America's built environment was a free-form landscape of individual expression. Signs, artifacts, and even buildings ranged from playful to eccentric, from deliciously cartoonish to quasipsychedelic. Photographer John Margolies spent over three decades and drove more than 100,000 miles documenting these fascinating and endearingly artisanal examples of roadside advertising and fantasy structures, a fast-fading aspect of Americana. This book brings together approximately 400 color photographs of main street signs, movie theaters, gas stations, fast food restaurants, motels, roadside attractions, miniature golf courses, dinosaurs, giant figures and animals, and fantasy coastal resorts. In an age when online shopping and mega-malls have reconfigured American consumerism, stripping away idiosyncracy in favor of a bland homogeneity, Margolies's elegiac 30-year survey reminds us of a more innocent, unpredictable and colorful past.--From publisher description.
Foreword in English, French, and German.
3836511738 9783836511735
Architectural photography--United States.
Architecture--Aesthetics--United States--Pictorial works.
Photography, Artistic.
Roadside architecture--United States--Pictorial works.
Signs and signboards--United States--Pictorial works.
United States--Pictorial works.