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PublisherAperture Foundation, Incorporated

ISBN-101597111929

ISBN-139781597111928

eBay Product ID (ePID)102981036

Product Key Features

Book TitleBrian Ulrich: Is this Place Great or What

Number of Pages152 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicIndustries / Retailing, Economic History, Economic Conditions, Individual Photographers / Artists' Books, United States / General

Publication Year2011

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Photography, Business & Economics

AuthorJuliet B. Schor

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight47.8 Oz

Item Length11.7 in

Item Width10 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-927770

ReviewsIn a decade-long survey of American consumerism, Ulrich casts a wry eye on the nation's shoppers and employees in big-box outlets and thrift shops-contrasting boom-years decadence and bust-years desolation with chilling irony., In a decade-long survey of American consumerism, Ulrich casts a wry eye on the nation's shoppers and employees in big-box outlets and thrift shops-contrasting boom-years decadence and bust-years desolation with chilling irony.--Jack Crager"American Photo" (11/01/2011)

Dewey Edition23

Photographed byUlrich, Brian

Volume Number`

Dewey Decimal779.092

SynopsisThis long-awaited first monograph presents Brian Ulrich's decade-long exploration of the shifting tectonic plates that make up American consumerism. The photographer focuses in part on the architectural legacies of a retail-driven economy in the midst of collapse--shopping malls on the brink of demolition, empty big box stores and other retail structures in transition. But Ulrich does more than sketch the fraying surfaces of a shopping-obsessed culture; he also offers clear-eyed yet sympathetic portraits of teenaged shoppers lost in reverie over a pair of shoes, thrift-store mavens determined to find the best deal and families in search of that perfect purchase. Cinematic and utterly engrossing, these portraits are interspersed among the forlorn landscapes of empty parking lots and foreclosed malls. Ulrich gets under the skin of the current financial crisis, tracing a palpable economic trajectory from irrational exuberance to debt-laden hangover and providing a sobering document of the American consumer psyche in crisis in the first decade of the twenty-first century., Plenty, Brian Ulrich's long-awaited first monograph, presents the photographer's decade-long exploration of the shifting tectonic plates that make up American consumer society. Ulrich focuses, in part, on photographing the architectural legacies of a retail-driven economy in the midst of collapse- shopping malls on the brink of demolition, empty big box stores, and other retail structures in transition. In depicting the disintegration of the former economic and social anchors of the American landscape, Ulrich does more than sketch the fraying surfaces of a shopping-obsessed culture. He has also created a series of clear-eyed yet sympathetic portraits-of teenaged shoppers lost in reverie over a new pair of shoes, thrift-store mavens determined to find the best deal possible, and families desperately in search of that perfect purchase. Cinematic and utterly engrossing, these portraits are interspersed among the forlorn landscapes of empty parking lots and foreclosed malls. Tracing a palpable trajectory from irrational exuberance to debt-laden hangover, Ulrich has successfully managed to get under the skin of the current economic crisis, providing a sobering document-both personal as well as sociologically astute-of the American consumer psyche in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Plenty will accompany an exhibition of the same title at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

LC Classification NumberTR647

Text bySchor, Juliet B.