Westward: The Course of Empire - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0300141343 ISBN 13: 9780300141344

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Art Gallery, 2008

Riassunto

Mark Ruwedel (b. 1954) has photographed the American West for the past twenty-five years, revealing the narrativesboth geological and humancontained within the landscape. This stunning book presents more than 70 prints from Ruwedel’s ongoing series Westward the Course of Empire, an inventory of the residual landforms created by the scores of railroads built in the American and Canadian West since 1869.

The grades, cuts, tunnels, and trestles depicted in Ruwedel’s photographs speak to a past triumph of technology over what was often perceived as hostile terrain, as well as to the desire and struggle to create wealth and power from the land. Long abandoned (and in some cases never completed), the railroads also evoke the futility of the enterprise. This book is thus a sublime yet restrained elegy to the land and to the follies and wonders of human ambition.

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L'autore:

Mark Ruwedel lives and works in Long Beach, California, where he teaches photography at the California State University at Long Beach. Jock Reynolds is the Henry J. Heinz II Director at the Yale University Art Gallery.

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Book by Ruwedel Mark

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Art Gallery
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0300141343
• ISBN 13: 9780300141344
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 175