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PublisherPrestel Gmbh & Co KG.

ISBN-103791351761

ISBN-139783791351766

eBay Product ID (ePID)127412310

Product Key Features

Book TitleBackyard Oasis : the Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSubjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, Individual Photographers / General, Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial, Subjects & Themes / Lifestyles, Outdoor & Recreational Areas, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa), Subjects & Themes / Landscapes

Publication Year2012

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, House & Home, Photography

AuthorDaniell Cornell

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight71.4 Oz

Item Length11.4 in

Item Width11.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-039304

Reviews"Southern California's pool culture is the subject of this unique and luscious collection of photographs that explore the parallel evolution of an iconic symbol and an artistic genre."--Photo-eye, Best Books of 2012 list, "I can't imagine a book better-suited to escaping into on a hot summer's day than Backyard Oasis." - W Magazine, "I can't imagine a book better-suited to escaping into on a hot summer's day than Backyard Oasis." - W Magazine "Southern California's pool culture is the subject of this unique and luscious collection of photographs that explore the parallel evolution of an iconic symbol and an artistic genre."--Photo-eye, Best Books of 2012 list

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal779/.36074794

SynopsisSouthern California's pool culture is the subject of this unique and luscious collection of photographs that explore the parallel evolution of an iconic symbol and an artistic genre. Since the end of World War II, Southern California's backyard pools-those blue-green oases in an otherwise often arid landscape-have symbolized any number of American ideals: optimism, wealth, consumerism, escape, physical beauty, and the triumph of man over nature. Simultaneously, the field of photography developed as a transformative method for recording the human condition. This exhibition catalog celebrates the nexus of these two phenomena in a one-of-a-kind collection that features more than two hundred works by more than forty postwar artists and photographers. It presents works by photographers and artists including Bill Anderson, John Baldessari, Ruth Bernhard, David Hockney, Herb Ritts, Ed Ruscha, Julius Shulman, and Larry Sultan. Thematically grouped into topics ranging from the rise of celebrity culture, suburbia and dystopia, avant-garde architectural landscape design, and the cult of the body, these images offer a reich study of the cultural connotations of the swimming pool. six insightful essays provide a comprehensive overview of the development of the swimming pool and its attendant aesthetic and social culture.

LC Classification NumberTR659.B33 2012