Henry Wessel: Five Books
California and the West, Odd Photos, Las Vegas, Real Estate Photographs, Night Walk ![Henry Wessel: Five Books<br> <br>California and the West, Odd Photos, Las Vegas, Real Estate Photographs, Night Walk]()
Photographs by Henry Wessel.
The photographs in these five books represent a sustained effort to describe the contemporary vernacular landscape of Southern California and the American West. From his early work in the 1970s to his most recent series in Las Vegas (2000-2004), Wessel's wit and insight illuminate a world rich in nuance, humor, and irony. For the past 30 years, Henry Wessel has observed and recorded the unusual and the iconic, framed and formed by the light and landscape of the West. Photographing the endless vanishing points of a desert road in black-and-white or an opulent, gilded hotel corridor in Las Vegas, Wessel finds in each a metaphor for the region where people go to vanish, to assume new identities. Anonymous houses, sculptural cacti, and beachgoers in Waikiki are captured in all their sphinx-like inscrutability.
PUBLISHED BY: Steidl
FORMAT: Slipcased, 10 x 9.5 in. / 154 pgs / 56 color.
ISBN: 9783865211330 ISBN10: 386521133X
PUBLICATION DATE: 12/15/2005
AVAILABILITY: Out of Print. Check the Stores tab to locate a shop that may have copies.
Bookseller Price Code: TRADE
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