Final Cut- Route 66
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2002
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-500-28350-9 (ISBN)
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-500-28350-9 (ISBN)
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Passing through seven states, Route 66 holds a unique place in American popular culture. Wistful, brutal and beautiful at the same time, the photographs in this book document the views, as well as the surviving personalities and buildings of the modest two-lane highway that took on cult status.
The road that became known as Route 66 holds a unique place in American popular culture. Unlike any other road in world history, this modest two-lane highway took on cult status, bound up with American nostalgia for a recent past in which life was far less complex and mechanized than it has now become. Inaugurated by a group of businessmen in the 1920s, at a time when the automobile was first asserting itself as one of the main preferences for family holiday travel, its life-span was short - less than fifty years - but its mythology goes on and on. While Freddy Langer's text tell's the curious story of Route 66 in some detail, it is Gerd Kittel's extraordinary photographs that tell the story of the road as it is now. Wistful, brutal and beautiful at the same time, these documents of today show what has become a once powerful symbol of American hopes and pleasures: the wrecks of abandoned automobiles, the deserted diners and souvenir shops; the battered remnants of failed silos and warehouses; derelict towns; surviving personalities and buildings, as well as some of the views the road offers as it passes through seven states between Chicago and the Pacific Ocean.
Before the advent of interstate superhighways, that was the main attraction of the road - its appeal to the American drive towards the West, where opportunity and success were believed to be waiting.
The road that became known as Route 66 holds a unique place in American popular culture. Unlike any other road in world history, this modest two-lane highway took on cult status, bound up with American nostalgia for a recent past in which life was far less complex and mechanized than it has now become. Inaugurated by a group of businessmen in the 1920s, at a time when the automobile was first asserting itself as one of the main preferences for family holiday travel, its life-span was short - less than fifty years - but its mythology goes on and on. While Freddy Langer's text tell's the curious story of Route 66 in some detail, it is Gerd Kittel's extraordinary photographs that tell the story of the road as it is now. Wistful, brutal and beautiful at the same time, these documents of today show what has become a once powerful symbol of American hopes and pleasures: the wrecks of abandoned automobiles, the deserted diners and souvenir shops; the battered remnants of failed silos and warehouses; derelict towns; surviving personalities and buildings, as well as some of the views the road offers as it passes through seven states between Chicago and the Pacific Ocean.
Before the advent of interstate superhighways, that was the main attraction of the road - its appeal to the American drive towards the West, where opportunity and success were believed to be waiting.
Gerd Kittel is a German photographer whose previous books include Southwest USA, A New England Autumn and Diners, Alexander Bloom is Professor of History and American studies at Wheaton college and is the author of Prodigal Sons, Takin' It to the Streets and Long Time Gone. Freddy Langer is the photo and travel editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.2.2002 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 83 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 234 x 285 mm |
| Gewicht | 1080 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe | |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-500-28350-8 / 0500283508 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-500-28350-9 / 9780500283509 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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