Western Rider: Views from a Car Window

Chuck Forsman

ISBN 10: 1930066139 / ISBN 13: 9781930066137

Published by Center for American Places, 2003

About this Item

A crisp Fine copy in a Fine mylat-protected dust jacket. 104 pp., plates.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Western Rider: Views from a Car Window
• Publisher: Center for American Places
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930066139
• ISBN 13: 9781930066137
• Binding: Glossy Photographic Boards
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

For this book, Chuck Forsman—a landscape painter held in the highest regard—undertook a fascinating project: while traveling the American West in search of places to paint, he took 35mm black-and-white photographs of the landscape as seen not from the saddle of a horse but from behind the wheel of a car. He shot his images spontaneously, in all seasons, weather conditions, and times of day, creating a body of energetic and poetically direct work that reviewers have already compared favorably to Robert Frank's The Americans—one of the twentieth century's most significant works of photography. Just as Frank offered a penetratingly honest and new view of America during the 1950s, so too does Forsman present us with equally honest views of the American West, views that capture the gripping beauty of the American road as well as the common experience we share in looking at a landscape the way it is most often seen: through the window of an automobile.

About the Author

Chuck Forsman is a professor of fine arts and painting at the University of Colorado, Boulder.