Rudy VanderLans - Supermarket

This volume presents color photographs by Rudy VanderLans of the landscape and buildings he encountered as he traveled through California. His photographs take us to the heart of this spectacle, where suburban elements meet vacuous space, where dubious claims of commerce stand fragile against a harsh light, where contemporary dwellers impose incongruous notions of luxury on a magnificent wilderness landscape. 'Supermarket' captures the folly and the beauty of this colorful drama in all its ambiguity, with astounding photographic spreads that come at us like film, taken at slightly different angles, juxtaposed or duplicated in singularly bold symmetry. The iteration of the images so leveraged simulates a spatiality that transcends the ordinary two-dimensional page. 'Supermarket' is a disturbingly beautiful book that takes us on a poetic journey through VanderLans' California, documenting our sometimes successful, sometimes futile attempt to transform an unfriendly environment into a bearable, happy land. Rudy VanderLans brings us inside this desert environment in small steps, taking us along the California coast heading south and then east through the built environment, setting the scene for our final destination. Some of the images are labeled with the time of day they were taken, or where they were taken, but are accompanied by no other commentary. A few have a short descriptive paragraph. 171 Seiten, überwiegend Farbabb., Großformat, Leinen (Gingko Press 2001) ohne Schutzumschlag, leichte Lagerspuren/without dust Jacket, minor shelfwear