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In Thirtyfour Campgrounds, Hogue investigates these sites, individually and in multiples, offering a photographic and typological survey of nearly 6,500 American campsites, mapping subtle differences within the apparently identical. The central part of the book consists of color photographs of individual campsites, downloaded from such online reservation websites as reserveamerica.com and recreation.gov, organized by zip code, and arranged in grids across the pages. Hogue nods to artist Ed Ruscha's Thirtyfour Parking Lots for his title and its attitude, and to the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher for the serial arrangement of images in grids. The campsite pictures seem at first endlessly repetitious; but then the repetition makes way for difference. Time reveals itself in fading light and passing clouds, the weather changes between photographs of neighboring sites, leaves turn color and fall, in an unexpected kind of time-lapse photography. This is a book that was made so seriously that it must (not) be taken too seriously. More scientific than any campground literature, Thirtyfour Campgrounds calls the very nature of scientific survey, research, and publication into question.

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Book category Books in English The arts Art treatments & subjects Individual artists, art monographs

• Full title: Thirtyfour Campgrounds
• Author: Martin Hogue
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780262035002
• ISBN: 9780262035002
• ID: 01005876
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 1722 g
• Dimensions: 288 × 290 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. November 2016

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