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Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement. In fact, people from around the work have been building shelters to protect themselves from catastrophe -- natural disaster, war, nuclear events -- for centuries. Waiting for the End of the World is photographer Richard Ross's journey into this quirky, somewhat paranoid, and occasionally beautiful underground world. Ross has documented not only the bomb shelters of the United States, but also examples from Vietnam, Russia, England, Turkey, and even Switzerland, where citizens are required by law to have a bomb shelter.
Ross's subjects include the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, where a shelter was built to house the entire U.S. Congress, shelters in Beijing, where the Chinese built a complete city underground, and Hittite shelters in Eastern Turkey built some 4,000 years ago. His ethereal images show spaces that at once provide only the barest necessities for survival but maintain a level of idiosyncratic personality that testify to the endurance -- and wackiness -- of the human spirit.
Waiting for the End of the World features an interview by author and social commentator Sarah Vowell.
Ross's subjects include the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, where a shelter was built to house the entire U.S. Congress, shelters in Beijing, where the Chinese built a complete city underground, and Hittite shelters in Eastern Turkey built some 4,000 years ago. His ethereal images show spaces that at once provide only the barest necessities for survival but maintain a level of idiosyncratic personality that testify to the endurance -- and wackiness -- of the human spirit.
Waiting for the End of the World features an interview by author and social commentator Sarah Vowell.
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Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement. In fact, people from around the world have been building shelters to protect themselves from catastrophe - natural disaster, war, nuclear events - for centuries. "Waiting for the End of the World" is photographer Richard Ross' journey into this quirky, somewhat paranoid, and occasionally beautiful underground world. Ross has documented not only the bomb shelters of the United States, but also examples from Vietnam, Russia, England, Turkey, and even Switzerland, where citizens are required by law to have a bomb shelter. Ross' subjects include the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, where a shelter was built to house the entire U.S. Congress, shelters in Beijing, where the Chinese built a complete city underground, and Hittite shelters in Eastern Turkey built some 4,000 years ago. His ethereal images show spaces that at once provide only the barest necessities for survival but maintain a level of idiosyncratic personality that testify to the endurance - and wackiness - of the human spirit.
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A quiet little gem
10. Juni 2004
Format:Taschenbuch
I had the pleasure of discovering Richard Ross' latest photographic endeavor at Book Expo last week in Chicago, where it was prominently displayed in the Princeton Architectural Press' booth. The photographs are splendid; quirky, heartfelt, enigmatic, a combo Ross effortlessly seems to get into a lot of his work.
How Ross also got into all these places is another amazing component of this project: he has to be one of the most intrepid, hard-working photo-artists presently at work.
The book is at once a thoughtful reminder of a former era of nuclear peril, and yet the images have a contemporary resonance, faced as we are (once again) with the threat of a world gone nuclear. Congratulations to the author on this tour-de-force effort.
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Great subject, but book is lacking...
17. September 2009
Format:Taschenbuch
The subject of armageddon, nuclear or other means, and how certain people equip themselves to survive it, is continually interesting. The author addresses some of the issues of the topic well, with a small interview in the beginning, and with the numerous photos in the book. In all, I would say the book is about 20% text, 60% photos, and 20% white space. I was very excited about this book and the material, but was left feeling slightly unfufilled. There are many examples of shelters, ranging in dates from 1000BC to present day; showing an interesting progression. For each shelter, there is a whole page dedicated to the description, that is only half filled with large text. I would have like some more details about the specific situation of each. Then there are anywhere from only 1 to 5+ photos of the shelter. These were very interesting, but many were too small; with 2 to 4 shrunk to fit the page. With the amount of time the author spent gathering this work, the reduced photos do not due justice. If this were made into a coffee table book, with individual large photo prints on nice stock, I would certainly recommend it. As it is, I found it just a passing curiosity, lacking in depth.
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Interesting
9. Februar 2009
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
The descriptions of the places and people behind these pictures was really interesting. I would have given more stars if the pictures were bigger. Some of them were as small as thumbnail pictures.
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