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Ambulance Chasers by Abraham Adams: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2022-10-11
- Pages
- 136
- ISBN
- 9780262047104
- Book Title
- Ambulance Chasers
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Item Length
- 14.1 in
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Uk-Trade Paper
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Art, Photography
- Topic
- Conceptual, Individual Artists / Artists' Books, Individual Photographers / Artists' Books
- Item Weight
- 22.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 136 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262047101
ISBN-13
9780262047104
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21057248162
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ambulance Chasers
Number of Pages
136 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Conceptual, Individual Artists / Artists' Books, Individual Photographers / Artists' Books
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Photography
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
22.3 Oz
Item Length
14.1 in
Item Width
9.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-285218
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
779.092
Synopsis
A series of photographic diptychs that investigate the behavior of images and offer an account of American precarity. Ambulance Chasers offers a series of photographic diptychs by the artist Abraham Adams: on the left, the faces of personal injury lawyers photographed from roadside billboards; on the right, the landscapes they survey. The gesture is a double rotation: each photograph is imagined as the spectator of the other, and in each pairing, the exorbitant promises of the animated lawyers are deflated by their juxtaposition with an often featureless roadside landscape. The ambulance chasers smile, grin, grimace, scowl; their hair is neatly coiffed, slicked back, unnaturally dark. They gaze at country roads, busy highways, empty intersections, blue skies, building sites, and parking lots. They offer assistance--at a price. Adams's conceptual performance and art historian David Joselit's text tell a story of American precarity. Joselit's text unrolls alongside the photographs like a long, broken caption. Adams and Joselit conceived their collaboration as an investigation of the behavior and poetics of images--both in the world as billboards and in the book as reproductions--in a visual and textual language quite different from standard theoretical texts. In a long interview, they explore the project's aesthetic and historical concerns, focusing on its hybridization of typologies central to post-World War II photography--the conceptual catalogs best exemplified by the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher and their students, and the "anti-heroic" American landscape, as charted by artists ranging from Ed Ruscha to Lewis Baltz and Robert Adams., A series of photographic diptychs that investigate the behavior of images and offer an account of American precarity. Ambulance Chasers offers a series of photographic diptychs by the artist Abraham Adams- on the left, the faces of personal injury lawyers photographed from roadside billboards; on the right, the landscapes they survey. The gesture is a double rotation- each photograph is imagined as the spectator of the other, and in each pairing, the exorbitant promises of the animated lawyers are deflated by their juxtaposition with an often featureless roadside landscape. The ambulance chasers smile, grin, grimace, scowl; their hair is neatly coiffed, slicked back, unnaturally dark. They gaze at country roads, busy highways, empty intersections, blue skies, building sites, and parking lots. They offer assistance-at a price. Adams's conceptual performance and art historian David Joselit's text tell a story of American precarity. Joselit's text unrolls alongside the photographs like a long, broken caption. Adams and Joselit conceived their collaboration as an investigation of the behavior and poetics of images-both in the world as billboards and in the book as reproductions-in a visual and textual language quite different from standard theoretical texts. In a long interview, they explore the project's aesthetic and historical concerns, focusing on its hybridization of typologies central to post-World War II photography-the conceptual catalogs best exemplified by the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher and their students, and the "anti-heroic" American landscape, as charted by artists ranging from Ed Ruscha to Lewis Baltz and Robert Adams.
LC Classification Number
TR647
Text by
Joselit, David
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- m***1 (12)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseItem felt like new quality to me, but it was not sealed (not a problem for me though). Pages are perfect, cover looks untouched, item was packaged efficiently. Shipping took longer than the time eBay initially gave me, though that might've been because I ordered several comics at the same time from this seller. AlibrisBooks has proven to be quite reliable.
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