John Margolies (1940–2016)
Autore di Pump and Circumstance: Glory Days of the Gas Station
Opere di John Margolies
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1940-05-16
- Data di morte
- 2016-05-26
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Pennsylvania (BA, MA)
- Attività lavorative
- author
photographer
lecturer - Organizzazioni
- Architectural Record
Architectural League of New York - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Wyeth Endowment for American Art
Alicia Patterson Foundation
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 22
- Utenti
- 584
- Popolarità
- #42,938
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 26
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 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.… (altro)