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A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture (Signed)
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Publishers Description
Drawing from the nearly half a million photographs and documents comprising the Historic American Buildings Survey held in the US Library of Congress, this book constructs a fictional ‘one-way road trip’ across the United States, weaving north and south across the Mason-Dixon line while tacking west. In A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture, Jeffrey Ladd uses the HABS archive as a surrogate in order to manifest a portrait of his former country at a moment when its democracy seems imperiled.
Inspired equally by the social documentary work of Walker Evans and the architectural interventions of Gordon Matta-Clark and others, Ladd embraces the muteness of photographs to create an ambiguous space where the sculptural, political, forensic, and fictional coalesce within a landscape of both beauty and fragility. What initially appears to be a single voice is revealed to belong to dozens of makers; what seems a description of the distant past is revealed to be closer to the present than expected. A Field Measure Survey sheds light not only on this remarkable archive but on the proliferate meanings that can be shaped from its images.
Dimensions | 23.32 x 17 cm |
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Binding | Softcover |
Signed Copy | Yes |
Stock & Delivery Status | Ready for despatch within 7 days of order |
Publisher | Mack |
Date Published | 2021 |
ISBN 13 | 9781913620417 |
Edition | 1st |
No. of Pages | 368 |
Author / Photographer | Jeffrey Ladd |