The city / Lori Nix ; essay by Barbara Pollack.

Main entry:

Nix, Lori, 1969-

Title & Author:

The city / Lori Nix ; essay by Barbara Pollack.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Description:

1 volume (unpaged, 1 folded) : color illustrations ; 29 x 35 cm

Notes:
Ed. of 1,200 copies.
"Over the past eight years, Lori Nix...has created meticulously detailed model environments and then photographed them locations within a fictional city that celebrate modern culture, knowledge, and innovation. But her monuments of civilization and material culture in The City are abandoned, in a state of ruin where nature has begun to repopulate the spaces."--Decode WWW site.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Over the past eight years, Lori Nix (born 1969) has created meticulously detailed model environments and then photographed them--locations within a fictional city that celebrate modern culture, knowledge and innovation. But her monuments of civilization are abandoned, in a state of ruin where nature has begun to repopulate the spaces. "I am fascinated, maybe even a little obsessed, with the idea of the apocalypse. In addition to my childhood experiences growing up with natural disasters in Kansas, I also watched disaster flicks in the 1970s. Each of these experiences has greatly influenced my photographic work." Nix considers herself a "faux landscape photographer" and spends months building the complex spaces before photographing them. As critic Sidney Lawrence wrote in Art in America: "Oddly endearing, terrifying and often electrifyingly plausible, [Nix's tableaux] prod us to ponder the fact that, like it or not, our fate is uncertain."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0983394237 (hardcover)
9780983394235 (hardcover)

Subject:

Nix, Lori, 1969-
Nix, Lori 1969-
Photography, Artistic.
Diorama.
Photographie artistique.
Dioramas.
art photography.
dioramas.
Art and Design.
Inszenierte Fotografie
Dioraman.

Added entries:

Pollack, Barbara.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 283784
Call No.: BIB 222190
Status: Available

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