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Message from the exterior
- Title
- Message from the exterior / Mark Ruwedel.
- Author
- Ruwedel, Mark, 1954-
- Publication
- [London] : MACK, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations; 31 cm
- Summary
- Message from the Exterior explores the ruins and remains of failed attempts to live in the desert's harsh environments, depicting abandoned houses--small, often eccentric huts, both humorous and a little forlorn. Ruwedel examines the desert regions east of Los Angeles as a palimpsest of cultural and natural histories, presenting an inventory of a particular, and poignant, form of vernacular architecture; each structure might be read as a clue to the lives of anonymous individuals, and the impulse to create a home in the wilderness, however transitory. The first section, 'Desert Houses', comprises 68 desert structures, while the second section "Dusk" presents houses photographed after the sun had disappeared over the horizon, now rendered in subdued, dusky tones that suggest both present and absence, and the weight of isolation.
- Uniform Title
- Photographs. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Photographs.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs.
- Pictorial works.
- Note
- Also published in a limited edition of 150 copies consisting of 2 hardback volumes, each with a tipped in image, each signed and numbered, and issued in a slipcase; includes a signed and numbered gravure print. Volume 1: 120 pages, 73 tritone plates; volume 2: 56 pages, 26 tritone plates.
- Call Number
- JQG 18-476
- ISBN
- 1910164461
- 9781910164464
- OCLC
- 953598918
- Author
- Ruwedel, Mark, 1954- photographer.
- Title
- Message from the exterior / Mark Ruwedel.
- Publisher
- [London] : MACK, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Library copy signed by author.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- JQG 18-476