The Weather And A Place To Live: Photographs Of The Suburban West (Center For Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize In ,Used
The Weather And A Place To Live: Photographs Of The Suburban West (Center For Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize In ,Used
The Weather And A Place To Live: Photographs Of The Suburban West (Center For Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize In ,Used
The Weather And A Place To Live: Photographs Of The Suburban West (Center For Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize In ,Used

The Weather And A Place To Live: Photographs Of The Suburban West (Center For Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize In ,Used

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In Compelling, Often Stunning Blackandwhite Photographs, The Weather And A Place To Live Portrays The Manmade Landscape Of The Western United States. Here We Come Face To Face With The Surreal Intersection Of The American Appetite For Suburban Development And The Resistant, Rolling, Arid Country Of The Desert West. Steven B. Smiths Extraordinary Photographs Take Us Into The Contemporary Reality Of Sprawling Suburbs Reconfiguring What Was Once Vast, Unpopulated Territory. With Arresting Concision And An Unblinking Eye, Smith Shows How A New Frontier Is Being Won, And Suggests Too How It May Be Lost In Its Very Emergence. Since The Early 1990S Smith Has Been Making Largeformat Photographs In California, Utah, Nevada, And Colorado. Based On This Body Of Work, He Was Chosen As Winner Of The Biennial Center For Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize In Photography.The Power Of These Photographs Lies In Part In Smiths Unusual Knowledge Of The Places He Portrays. Raised In Utah, Smith Has Worked On Construction Crews, And He Was A Contractor In California After Living On The East Coast For A Few Years. When He Moved To Los Angeles In 1991, He Writes, I Was So Astounded By What I Saw Happening To The Landscape As It Was Being Developed That I Started Photographing It Immediately. The Landscapes I Saw Were Scraped Bare, Resculpted, Sealed, And Then Covered So As Not To Erode Away Before The Building Process Could Be Completed.Smiths Photographs Offer A Disturbing Vision Of The Future Of Our Planet, Where The Desire For Home Ownership Is Pitted Against The Costs Of Development In Epic Proportions. These Altered Landscapes Force Us To Consider The Consequences Of Human Design Battling Natural Forces Across Great Expanses, A Fragile Balancing Act And A Contorted Equation In Which Nature Becomes Both Inspiration And Invisible Adversary. Smiths Elegant Photographs Of This Constructed Universe Confront Us With The Beauty Of Images As Images, Yet Push Us To Reflect On The Devastation Possible In The Simple Act Of Choosing A Place To Live.

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