Brian Ulrich: Is This Place Great or What, signed

Ulrich, Brian [Photographer]; Schor, Juliet B. [Contributor];

ISBN 10: 1597111929 / ISBN 13: 9781597111928

Published by Aperture, 2011

About this Item

Stated First Edition. Signed by artist on half title page.Very Good blue cloth boards with silver lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; Contents clean and unmarked, except signed by author on half title page. VG dust jacket. Unpaginated.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Brian Ulrich: Is This Place Great or What, signed
• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597111929
• ISBN 13: 9781597111928
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 49 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Author
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About this title

Synopsis

This long-awaited first monograph presents Brian Ulrich's decade-long exploration of the shifting tectonic plates that make up American consumerism. The photographer focuses in part on the architectural legacies of a retail-driven economy in the midst of collapse--shopping malls on the brink of demolition, empty big box stores and other retail structures in transition. But Ulrich does more than sketch the fraying surfaces of a shopping-obsessed culture; he also offers clear-eyed yet sympathetic portraits of teenaged shoppers lost in reverie over a pair of shoes, thrift-store mavens determined to find the best deal and families in search of that perfect purchase. Cinematic and utterly engrossing, these portraits are interspersed among the forlorn landscapes of empty parking lots and foreclosed malls. Ulrich gets under the skin of the current financial crisis, tracing a palpable economic trajectory from irrational exuberance to debt-laden hangover and providing a sobering document of the American consumer psyche in crisis in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

About the Authors

Brian Ulrich holds an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. In 2009, he was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Julie Saul, New York; and Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco.

Juliet B. Shor is professor of sociology at Boston College, a former Guggenheim Fellow, and the author of "The Overworked American," "The Overspent American," and "Consumerism and Its Discontents."