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The Road and American Culture Ser.: Fifty Houses : Images from the American Road by Sandy Sorlien (2002, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-100801870623
ISBN-139780801870620
eBay Product ID (ePID)2215493
Product Key Features
Number of Pages136 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFifty Houses : Images from the American Road
Publication Year2002
SubjectSubjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial, Buildings / Residential, Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Architecture, Photography
AuthorSandy Sorlien
SeriesThe Road and American Culture Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight30.1 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width10.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2001-008639
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Do you like good writing? Exceptional and creative photography? American architecture? Fifty Houses combines all three... Shot with black-and-white infrared film, each house portrait is a work of art and a tribute to America's wonderfully diverse housing styles."--Jill Sell, Cleveland Plain Dealer, "By any measure, Sandy Sorlien's Fifty Houses: Images From the American Road is a monumental project. But it's also somewhat quixotic. Can a photographer really express the essence of American vernacular architecture as one example from each state? That's what Sorlien does in her new book of that title... Such cataloging of diversity isn't what makes these images special. Sorlien photographed in black-and-white infrared film, which produces pronounced graininess and luminosity -- foliage comes out white, for instance. This stylistic mantle inflects the houses in her series with a fairy-tale aura of timelessness and even nobility. Many aren't especially distinguished, but Sorlien's technique imparts iconic radiance. She makes us believe that America's regional character is worth preserving."--Edward J. Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer, "Photographer Sandy Sorlien weds the themes of domestic refuge and journey by capturing with her lens a half-hundred houses in fifty different states, dwellings that provoked her artistic imagination and convey her concern for the rapidly changing national landscape."--Cathleen Norman, Vernacular Architecture Newsletter, ''By any measure, Sandy Sorlien's Fifty Houses: Images From the American Road is a monumental project. But it's also somewhat quixotic. Can a photographer really express the essence of American vernacular architecture as one example from each state? That's what Sorlien does in her new book of that title... Such cataloging of diversity isn't what makes these images special. Sorlien photographed in black-and-white infrared film, which produces pronounced graininess and luminosity -- foliage comes out white, for instance. This stylistic mantle inflects the houses in her series with a fairy-tale aura of timelessness and even nobility. Many aren't especially distinguished, but Sorlien's technique imparts iconic radiance. She makes us believe that America's regional character is worth preserving.'' -- Edward J. Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer, "Traveling the country, Sorlien captures regional architectural heritage in an engaging non-fiction approach. Resonant images are paired with keen observations in vignettes that read like fiction. Sorlien is a true citizen spirit, dedicated to grace of place, and engaging her vision and voice to create an unusual artistic registry of Americana. Fifty Houses enters the road journey book category as a profound addition to the dialogue on the erosion of our regional identities and sense of place."--Mary Ann Lynch, Camera Arts, "[A]n engaging study of local architectural styles, a dying breed of distinctive dwellings eclipsed by mass-market house designs... The black and white photographs were taken with infrared film, a technique which imparts a soft, almost dreamlike quality. They capture the range of regional flavor from a simple Connecticut saltbox to a majestic antebellum manse in Kentucky."--Nancy Sheehan, Worcester Sunday Telegram, "Sandy Sorlien creates a moving, stunning document of America's rich and imperiled domestic architectural heritage. "--Katrine Ames, House and Garden
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal779/.473
Table Of ContentContents: List of Plates Foreword, by William Least Heat-Moon Introduction: Finding Fifty HousesFIFTY HOUSESSelected Bibliography AcknowledgementsPLATESNORTHEAST Sumneytown, Pennsylvania Newton, Connecticut Middleburgh, New York Jamestown, Rhode Island Worcester, Massachusetts Putney, Vermont Sandwich, New Hampshire Portland, MaineSOUTH ATLANTIC Peters Valley, New Jersey Middletown, Delaware Cumberland, Maryland Sperryville, Virginia Scottville, North Carolina Mountville, South Carolina Darien, Georgia Bushnell, FloridaSOUTH Mobile, Alabama Biloxi, Mississippi Thibodaux, Louisiana Pine Bluff, Arkansas Graniteville, Missouri Jonesborough, Tennessee Harrodsburg, Kentucky Ansted, West VirginiaMIDWEST Penfield, Ohio Shelbyville, Indiana Mackinac Island, Michigan Oak Park, Illinois Black River Falls, Wisconsin SaintCloud, Minnesota Froelich, IowaPLAINS Fredericksburg, Texas Kingfisher, Oklahoma Eureka, Kansas Sutherland, Nebraska Interior, South Dakota Kulm, North Dakota Rollins, Montana Dubois, WyomingWEST Salt Lake City, Utah Craig, Colorado Sante Fe, New Mexico Tucson, Arizona San Diego, California Las Vegas, Nevada Warm River, Idaho Portland, Oregon Sequim, Washington Iao Valley, Maui, Hawaii Healy, Alaska
SynopsisIn 1988, photographer Sandy Sorlien set out on a series of journeys to document the rich architectural heritage that America is losing to the cheap and banal design aesthetic of tract housing, strip malls, and big-box stores. Her seven-year odyssey took her over 90,000 miles of back roads to every state in the Union in search of homes that reflect and define the region in which they stand. After making over a thousand house portraits, Sorlien has chosen one representative image from each state and collected them in this volume., ''Fifty Houses is a kind of dream book, not just in the otherworldly atmosphere that Sorlien summons up through her apparitional effects with infrared film or through the total exclusion of the humans who dwell within these houses, but also in the way certain of the pictures reach beyond to strike some chord of archetypal resonance . . . The cool ......, ''Fifty Houses is a kind of dream book, not just in the otherworldly atmosphere that Sorlien summons up through her apparitional effects with infrared film or through the total exclusion of the humans who dwell within these houses, but also in the way certain of the pictures reach beyond to strike some chord of archetypal resonance . . . The cool and controlled art behind the photographs draws upon the deep and abiding power of dreams-not simply those of sleep but also those of our deepest longings.''-from the Foreword by William Least Heat-Moon In 1988, photographer Sandy Sorlien set out on a series of journeys to document the rich architectural heritage that America is losing to the cheap and banal design aesthetic of tract housing, strip malls, and big-box stores. Her eight-year odyssey took her over ninety thousand miles of back roads to every state in the Union in search of homes that reflect and define the region in which they stand. After making over a thousand ''house portraits,'' Sorlien has chosen one representative image from each state and collected them in Fifty Houses. Shot with black-and-white infrared film, the homes captured through Sorlien's lens range from the grand to the humble, from the historic to the commonplace. Included here are a classic saltbox in Newtown, Connecticut; the House on the Rocks in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay; a mobile home in Bushnell, Florida; a Stick-style folk Victorian in Biloxi, Mississippi; a limestone cottage in Fredericksburg, Texas; a false-front house in Rollins, Montana; a log cabin in Dubois, Wyoming; an adobe dwelling in Sante Fe, New Mexico; and a platform tent in Healy, Alaska. Each image is accompanied by a vignette from Sorlien's road journal, offering details of the house depicted, its owners and history, other houses in the region, or her travel experiences in the state. At a time when America's architectural landscape is being homogenized by suburban sprawl, when the outskirts of Anchorage and Oklahoma City look no different from those of Tucson, Jacksonville, and Salt Lake City, Fifty Houses provides a remarkable visual record of regional domestic architecture and an elegiac meditation on the changing American landscape.51 duotones and one map
LC Classification NumberTR659.S667 2002
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