Scenes from California's Central Valley
Edición de la obra Jake Longstreth : Tulare
| Autor | Jake Longstreth, Sullivan, John |
|---|---|
| Editorial | The Ice Plant |
| Fecha de publicación | Oct 23, 2018 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 80 |
| Formato | hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780999265529 |
| ISBN-10 | 0999265520 |
| OCLC | 1072951144 |
| Número de Cutter | L857j |
From 2008 to 2012, often in the dead of summer, American painter Jake Longstreth (born 1977) photographed the dusty, utilitarian Central Valley of California, a severe inland topography formerly occupied by the massive Tulare Lake. With a tonal restraint echoing the style of his own flatly realistic paintings, Longstreth's photographs capture the hazy, blinding sunlight and muted palette of this region, a topography that has been transformed from a lush, wild terrain--celebrated by John Muir in 1868 as 'one smooth, continuous bed of honey-bloom'--into the monotonously fertile industrial farmland it is today. 'Millions of people pass over the dry lake-bed in their cars every year, unaware of its previous existence, ' Longstreth notes with ambivalent fascination. A Taco Bell now stands roughly where the shores of Tulare Lake once were.