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Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982

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Southern California's pool culture is the subject of this unique and luscious collection of photographs that explore the parallel evolution of an iconic symbol and an artistic genre. Since the end of World War II, Southern California's backyard pools-those blue-green oases in an otherwise often arid landscape-have symbolized any number of American ideals: optimism, wealth, consumerism, escape, physical beauty, and the triumph of man over nature. Simultaneously, the field of photography developed as a transformative method for recording the human condition. This exhibition catalog celebrates the nexus of these two phenomena in a one-of-a-kind collection that features more than two hundred works by more than forty postwar artists and photographers.
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ISBN:
9783791351766
Author:
Cornell, Daniell
Publisher:
Prestel Publishing
Author:
Stearns, Robert
Author:
Watts, Jennifer A.
Author:
Stallings, Tyler
Author:
Atkins, Robert
Author:
Hebdige, Dick
Author:
A. Watts, Jennifer
Subject:
Individual Photographer
Subject:
Photography-Photographers
Publication Date:
20120131
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
11 x 11 in
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