EAN: 9783969990070

FLORIDAS - ANASTASIA SAMOYLOVA WALKER EVANS LEINEN

Sunshine state. Swampland paradise. Tourist aspiration. Real estate racket. Refuge of excess.
Political swing-state. Sub-tropical fever dream. With forms of nature and culture found nowhere
else  Florida is unique. It is also among the most elusive and misunderstood of places.
Anastasia Samoylova photographs Florida on intensive road trips. Walker Evans (1903-75)
photographed it over four decades. Twisting the visual clichés  these two remarkably discerning
observers convey Florida's dizzying combination of fantasy and reality. Evans witnessed modern
Florida emerging in the 1930s  with its blend of cultures  waves of tourism  stark beauty and
blatant vulgarity. He photographed there until the 1970s  making Polaroids that still feel
contemporary. Samoylova inherits what Evans saw coming. With intelligence and humor  she picks
her way through the seductions and disappointments of a place that symbolizes the
contradictions of the United States today. In Floridas  photographs by Samoylova and Evans are
presented in parallel  weaving past and present  switching between black-and-white and color
imagery  all complemented by an essay by editor David Campany and a visionary short story by
celebrated novelist and Florida resident Lauren Groff.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9783969990070

Produktinformationen zur 9783969990070