TITLE | The City; Lori Nix |
PUBLICATION DATE | 2013 |
BOOK CONDITION | Used. Very good condition (slight scuffing on back dust jacket). |
PRODUCT DETAILS | Hardcover 1st Edition; out of print; rare Language: English |
PRICE | $350.00 + tax and shipping (or free local pick-up from PCNW) |
PUBLISHER | DECODE, Inc |
ISBN NUMBER | 978-0-9833942-3-5 |
ABOUT THE BOOK
Photographer - Lori Nix
Essay by Barbara Pollack
Over many 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.”>