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Close to Home: An American Album
J.D. Waldie
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Description for Close to Home: An American Album
paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 115 b&w and 15 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AJC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 215 x 11. Weight in Grams: 503.
A Siamese cat beneath a clothesline...three women with linked arms standing on the front lawn...a man drying his hands on a dish towel in front of the kitchen stove. These scenes are part of Close to Home and the accompanying the Getty Museum exhibition (to be held from October 12, 2004 to January 16, 2005), which celebrate snapshots - "found" photographs by anonymous photographers - that capture everyday life in all of its joy, banality, and mystery. Taken between 1930 and the mid-1960s, these photographs, most of them in black-and-white, create an unpretentious portrait of suburban American life by untrained ... Read more
A Siamese cat beneath a clothesline...three women with linked arms standing on the front lawn...a man drying his hands on a dish towel in front of the kitchen stove. These scenes are part of Close to Home and the accompanying the Getty Museum exhibition (to be held from October 12, 2004 to January 16, 2005), which celebrate snapshots - "found" photographs by anonymous photographers - that capture everyday life in all of its joy, banality, and mystery. Taken between 1930 and the mid-1960s, these photographs, most of them in black-and-white, create an unpretentious portrait of suburban American life by untrained ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
J. Paul Getty Museum United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Santa Monica CA, United States
ISBN
9780892367719
SKU
V9780892367719
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About J.D. Waldie
D.J. Waldie is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir; Real City: Downtown Los Angeles Inside/Out and Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles. His reviews and commentaries appear regularly in the Los Angeles Times.
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