John Margolies (1940–2016)
Auteur de Pump and Circumstance: Glory Days of the Gas Station
Œuvres de John Margolies
Fun Along the Road: American Tourist Attractions - Another Amazing Album from America's Number One Roadside Observer (1998) 69 exemplaires
Ticket to Paradise: American Movie Theaters and How We Had Fun (1991) — Photographe — 45 exemplaires
Blue Ribbon USA: Prizewinning Recipes from State and County Fairs (2007) — Photographe — 18 exemplaires
Pump and Circumstance: 30 Gas Station Postcards (Pump & Circumstance Postcard Book) (1995) 7 exemplaires
K & J Dairy, 11600 Livernois, Detroit, Michigan 2 exemplaires
The Hungry Hobo, Ferry Street, Metropolis, Illinois 1 exemplaire
Village Place Crash Landing, New Orleans, Louisiana 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1940-05-16
- Date de décès
- 2016-05-26
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- University of Pennsylvania (BA, MA)
- Professions
- author
photographer
lecturer - Organisations
- Architectural Record
Architectural League of New York - Prix et distinctions
- Wyeth Endowment for American Art
Alicia Patterson Foundation
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 22
- Membres
- 586
- Popularité
- #42,792
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 26
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1
A bit disjointed, though. Some chapters are a bit long (24-30 pages), while others very short (4-10 pages). Transitions from one topic to another are not always obvious or clear. Overbalanced toward upstate New York attractions. Text is more allegorical and guess work, rather than historically researched and documented.
That said, however, it's a book by a photographer, not a historian. And it does contain some lovely images of quirky place from the West Coast, Midwest, Southeast, the South, and Northeast.… (plus d'informations)