Structures of Utility - Hardcover

Wilson, David Stark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1890771627 ISBN 13: 9781890771621

Publisher: Heyday Books, 2003

Synopsis

Art. Photography. Using a large-format view camera, David Stark Wilson elevates the architecturally underappreciated utility buildings that dot California's great Central Valley. In both words and pictures, Wilson captures the disquietingly abandoned landscape that, neither "cultural" nor "natural" has, nonetheless, much of the beauty and consequence of both, though it is, like these buildings, an industrial ruin, still in use.

About this title

About the Author:

David Stark Wilson, born in Berkeley, California, has been a building designer for over fifteen years. His projects have won awards from the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, "Sunset", and "Metropolitan Home Magazine." An avid mountaineer and skier, he developed a love of photography at an early age. His interests in design and photography converged during his back-road encounters with the austere agricultural buildings of California’s Central Valley. He has photographed architecture for "Sunset," "Better Homes and Gardens", and "San Francisco Magazine." David lives in Berkeley with his wife, Stacia Cronin, and children, Chase and Kai.

See more of David Stark Wilson's work at the Bateman Gallery.

Review:

"I have numerous black and white visually expository books and...Wilson’s first effort...stands well with the best." -- Lou Jacobs, Jr., Rangefinder Magazine, November 2003

"On one level, it's a book about design, on another... photography. More important...it's about learning to see." -- Duane Noriyuki, Los Angeles Times, July 31, 2003

"...(Wilson) has captured the last remnant of a life that is no longer." -- Alysia Earle, View Camera Magazine, May/June 2004

About this edition

• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1890771627
• ISBN 13: 9781890771621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144