Research Catalog

Title

ZZYZX / Gregory Halpern.

Author

Halpern, Greg

Publication

• [London] : MACK, [2016]
• ©2016

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

"The early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies -- sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid row--but the place is not so easily distilled or visualized, either as a clichéd paradise or as its demise. There&s a strange kind of harmony when it&s all seen together--the sublime, the psychedelic, the self-destructive. Like all places, it's unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes. Cultures and histories coexist, the beautiful sits next to the ugly, the redemptive next to the despairing, and all under a strange and singular light, as transcendent as it is harsh. The pictures in this book begin in the desert east of Los Angeles and move west through the city, ending at the Pacific. This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water, as well as the original expansion of America, which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific, thereby fulfilling its "manifest" destiny." -- Publisher's description

Uniform Title

Photographs. Selections

Alternative Title

Photographs.

Subjects

• Pictorial works
• 2000-2099
• Fotografie
• California > Los Angeles
• Photography, Artistic > 21st century
• Los Angeles (Calif.) > 21st century > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Note

• "The pictures in this book begin in the desert east of Los Angeles and move west through the city, ending at the Pacific. This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water, as well as the original expansion of America, which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific, thereby fulfilling its 'manifest' destiny" -- Publisher's website, accessed September 1, 2016.

ISBN

• 1910164658
• 9781910164655

OCLC

• ocn953598888
• SCSB-1874077

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library