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    <![CDATA[Vanishing America: The End of Main Street]]>
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    <![CDATA[Think of the quirky buildings you pass every day but whose quiet beauty you take for granted&#8212;the moviehouses, juke joints, soda fountains, barbershops, roadside diners, and storefront churches. You don&#8217;t miss them until they&#8217;re gone. As suburban sprawl and strip malls conquer the country, these vestiges of a lost way of life are falling under the wrecking ball. Here the photographer Michael Eastman has made the ultimate road trip, crisscrossing the nation dozens of times, to capture these buildings on film before they vanish. These dreamy images call us to question what we choose to let go in the wake of contemporary life, with a cool melancholy that evokes the work of Edward Hopper, Jack Kerouac, and William Eggleston. There is a wry sense of humor here as well. The book delights in the idiosyncracies of America&#8217;s vernacular styles, ranging from Depression Deco to New England clapboard in random juxtapositions that accrue over time in a town&#8217;s landscape. Countless visual puns arise among the book&#8217;s many detailed images of signs and statuettes. Vanishing America catalogues great everyday American architecture and design. But it also offers a provocative portrait of the silent emptiness that has descended upon vanishing small communities everywhere.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Michael Eastman]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Sep 24 12:11:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stunning photographs, my only criticism is there might be too many photos.  Instead of the occasional four images per page I would have preferred fewer images that all received their own page or a maximum of two photos per page.  Compositions and lighting were stunning, most images were from St. Lou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72360628">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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