- Taschenbuch: 128 Seiten
- Verlag: Motorbooks International; Auflage: illustrated edition (1. Juni 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 076031490X
- ISBN-13: 978-0760314906
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,8 x 22,2 x 1,2 cm
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- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.170.292 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Icons of roadside culture. 100 colour, b/w illus.
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The second half of the twentieth century saw a tremendous expansion into the American deserts, especially right alter World War II. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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As you would expected the mechanical detritus of America is a bit of a magnet for photographers. Who can pass up taking shots of abandoned vehicles, filling stations and other commercial buildings that seem to be scattered along the tarmac of the Nation, especially if they are surrounded by an empty landscape. Not Troy Paiva for sure but he takes the idea a step further by capturing all this stuff after dark and he does a super job.
Not content with taking these photos at night he adds a neat touch by using different coloured lights to illuminate the scene. So now the ordinary abandoned filling station becomes the extraordinary abandoned station with red walls, green and purple canopies against a dark blue sky (Ludlow on Route 66, page forty-seven) or part of a pick-up truck with a magenta cab leaning against a junked Interstate highway sign (Sacramento, page 110) The four chapters in the book are full of these intriguing photos. The best ones, I think, are in Salvage where you can see some knockout images of old jet planes, slowly being cut up for scrap.
As well as great photos, Troy Paiva writes interesting captions to all the photos, rather unusual for a photo book, so many photographers seem to think that just the name of the location and the year is all that is required. He also contributes four worthwhile essays to each chapter filling out the historical detail of what is now discarded.
So why *** stars? It's because the books production really does not do justice to these photos. The publisher mostly produce transport books not art books and the layout would be fine if it was dealing with trains, for instance, where the photos and artwork would come from a variety of sources. I feel 'Lost America' deserves a more formal treatment, with each page having one centred image and caption and the text not mixed up with the photos. Also in this book there is far too much white space, none of the photos are whole page or on black pages for a change of pace. If Paiva carries on taking his night shots perhaps another publisher will produce a book that shows of his work to better effect.
BTW you can see all these photos (on a handsome black screen) and more on Troy's website, just put his name into Google. Here's a bit of advice though, don't click on his LINKS unless you have a few hours to spare, it is the most awesome list of visual Americana sites you'll find anywhere. All free too!
Format:Taschenbuch
Doing injustice to photographical work is easy: Print the best photos as small as possible, let part of the photos sink into the center and make a little paperback format of the whole works. What a marevellous achievement by the producers of this volume - 5 stars for going so far.
A format like "Approaching Nowhere" by Jeff Brouws would do this excellent work - although thematically different - a world of good.
I would be happy to fork out a similar amount of $$ for a similar presentation. I have left no doubt about the lasting impression Troy Paiva's work has left with me in my correspondence with the artist - and will continue to do so.
A format like "Approaching Nowhere" by Jeff Brouws would do this excellent work - although thematically different - a world of good.
I would be happy to fork out a similar amount of $$ for a similar presentation. I have left no doubt about the lasting impression Troy Paiva's work has left with me in my correspondence with the artist - and will continue to do so.
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Haunting, Riveting Images of Abandoned Popular Culture.
25. November 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
After years of admiring Troy Paiva's photography on his website, I was thrilled to find that a collection of his unique images is finally available in print. For those unfamiliar with Paiva's work, he takes color pictures of long-abandoned buildings and machines at night, under moonlight, and provides additional illumination with splashes of brightly colored flash. If that sounds gaudy or just plain odd, it probably is. And although I'm normally a fan of subdued colors and black-and-white photography, Troy Paiva's work has always captivated me. A lot of photographers take pictures of decay. And taken under sunlight by any other photographer, that's what these images would look like. But decay is only part of the story. Troy Paiva had a stroke of genius when he determined that darkness and garish color would turn his images of junk into vital accounts of American technologies and ideas whose life cycle has been spent. His lighting techniques make the structures seem haunted. Not by ghosts, but by cultures long departed. Ugly things are made eerily riveting, if not actually beautiful.
"Lost America" contains five sections: "Where the Lanes Are Wide" (photographs of abandoned Miracle Mile towns), "Drive In, Drive Out" (you guessed it, drive-in movie theaters), "The Last Resort" (The Salton Sea), and "Salvage" (machines with one foot in the grave). Troy Paiva introduces each section with an excellent essay detailing the history of the subject and its demise. The essays are fluid and informative. Mr. Paiva turns out to be one of those photographers who writes the text for his photographs better than anyone else could. There are about 90 5"x7 1/2" color photographs in this book, all with explanatory captions, and some smaller black-and-white photographs as well. I have really enjoyed looking at these images over and over again. My only misgiving about the book is that I wish it were hardcover and perhaps a little larger. Nevertheless, no fan or practitioner of photography should be without Troy Paiva's haunting historic images. Aficionados of 20th Century popular culture may also find "Lost America" valuable for its graphic representation of how cultures and their icons came and then passed into oblivion. Highly recommended.
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Round about midnight.
29. Oktober 2003
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As you would expected the mechanical detritus of America is a bit of a magnet for photographers. Who can pass up taking shots of abandoned vehicles, filling stations and other commercial buildings that seem to be scattered along the tarmac of the Nation, especially if they are surrounded by an empty landscape. Not Troy Paiva for sure but he takes the idea a step further by capturing all this stuff after dark and he does a super job.
Not content with taking these photos at night he adds a neat touch by using different colored lights to illuminate the scene. So now the ordinary abandoned filling station becomes the extraordinary abandoned station with red walls, green and purple canopies against a dark blue sky (Ludlow on Route 66, page forty-seven) or part of a pick-up truck with a magenta cab leaning against a junked interstate highway sign (Sacramento, page 110) The four chapters in the book are full of these intriguing photos. The best ones, I think, are in Salvage where you can see some knockout images of old jet planes, slowly being cut up for scrap.
As well as great photos, Troy Paiva writes interesting captions to all the photos, rather unusual for a photo book, so many photographers seem to think that just the name of the location and the year is all that is required. He also contributes four worthwhile essays to each chapter filling out the historical detail of what is now discarded.
So why *** stars? It's because the book's production really does not do justice to these photos. The publisher mostly produce transport books not art books and the layout would be fine if it was dealing with trains, for instance, where the photos and artwork would come from a variety of sources. I feel `Lost America' deserves a more formal treatment, with each page having one centered image and caption and the text not mixed up with the photos. Also there is far too much white space, none of the photos are whole page or on black pages for a change of pace. If Paiva carries on taking his night shots perhaps another publisher will produce a book that shows of his work to better effect.
BTW: You can see all these photos (on a handsome black screen) and more on Troy's website, just put his name into Google. Here's a bit of advice though, don't click on his LINKS unless you have a few hours to spare, it is the most awesome list of visual Americana sites you'll find anywhere. All free too!
Not content with taking these photos at night he adds a neat touch by using different colored lights to illuminate the scene. So now the ordinary abandoned filling station becomes the extraordinary abandoned station with red walls, green and purple canopies against a dark blue sky (Ludlow on Route 66, page forty-seven) or part of a pick-up truck with a magenta cab leaning against a junked interstate highway sign (Sacramento, page 110) The four chapters in the book are full of these intriguing photos. The best ones, I think, are in Salvage where you can see some knockout images of old jet planes, slowly being cut up for scrap.
As well as great photos, Troy Paiva writes interesting captions to all the photos, rather unusual for a photo book, so many photographers seem to think that just the name of the location and the year is all that is required. He also contributes four worthwhile essays to each chapter filling out the historical detail of what is now discarded.
So why *** stars? It's because the book's production really does not do justice to these photos. The publisher mostly produce transport books not art books and the layout would be fine if it was dealing with trains, for instance, where the photos and artwork would come from a variety of sources. I feel `Lost America' deserves a more formal treatment, with each page having one centered image and caption and the text not mixed up with the photos. Also there is far too much white space, none of the photos are whole page or on black pages for a change of pace. If Paiva carries on taking his night shots perhaps another publisher will produce a book that shows of his work to better effect.
BTW: You can see all these photos (on a handsome black screen) and more on Troy's website, just put his name into Google. Here's a bit of advice though, don't click on his LINKS unless you have a few hours to spare, it is the most awesome list of visual Americana sites you'll find anywhere. All free too!
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Lost America Rules!!
13. Juni 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
I've been a fan of Troy Paiva's night photography for years. It's ethereal, it's mysterious, it's almost supernatural. The Abandoned Roadside West is his recurrent theme: ghost towns, derelict drive-ins and motels, airplane graveyards, and other places in our own country that we would never otherwise see, or even guess at their existence.
How does he do it? He works at it. Over the years he developed his own system of long-exposure night photography that uses strategically placed colored strobes to light the most unusual and out-of-the-way locales imaginable, which he researches and tracks down during week-long expeditions through the forgotten desert highways of the West in his trusty Subaru SUV.
Paiva, a former toy designer, is like no one else. He possesses a sardonic view of the world and a maniacal sense of humor. His esthetic is informed by kitsch, camp, television, toys, modern architecture, the pop culture of the fifties and sixties, and his extensive formal training in design and technology. How this mixture of traits and influences yields such hauntingly beautiful images is a mystery you will want to check out.
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