Michael Ormerod States America (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Paperback original. French flaps. Portrait 4to. 112pp. Previous owner's discreet blind stamp to leading corner of ffe. with date added in pencil. Slight bump to tail of spine. *** Michael Ormerod's posthumously published collection of photographs of his beloved America, showing the beauty of a decaying country from an outsider's perspective. Scarce.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Softcover, 112 pgs. 11" x 9". 73 duotone and 24 color illustrations. Near fine+, with very light edge/surface wear. Scarce book published to coincide with the exhibition of Michael Ormerod's 'States of America' at the Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London. Although he is a British photographer, Ormerod was fascinated by the American dream and American life. This book was published two years after Ormerod passed away in a traffic accident in 1991. After traveling to the United States many times, Ormerod depicted another America that deviated from capitalist society, such as desolate lands, rusty cityscapes with few people, and rural people represented by cowboys and motorbike riders. It is a beautiful and somewhat lonely road movie that recalls the documentaries left by previous masters such as Lee Friedlander and William Eggleston. A masterpiece of a private documentary that expresses the charm and current state of good old America from an exceptional perspective through a mixture of black and white and color illustrations. …