TY  - BOOK
AU  - Margolies,John
AU  - Heimann,Jim
AU  - Patton,Phil
AU  - Peatross,C.Ford
TI  - Roadside America: architectural relics from a vanishing past = Architektonische Relikte einer vergangenen Epoche = reliques architecturales d'une époque disparque 
SN  - 3836511738
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Köln, Germany
PB  - Taschen
KW  - Architectural photography
KW  - United States
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Photography, Artistic
KW  - Roadside architecture
KW  - Signs and signboards
N1  - Includes index
N2  - 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
ER  -