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OverviewPhotography. Art. RIVIERA documents the eerie fragments of existence left behind in one city. John Brian King photographed RIVIERA from 2016 to 2018 in Palm Springs, California, and its surroundings; a full-time resident at the time, he used a cheap instant film camera to give his photographs a unique, washed-out, hazy aesthetic. King depicts a city that is frozen in a visually arresting state of decline, cataloguing the totems of an absurd civilization. I wanted to photograph the Palm Springs that I lived in and interacted with every single day, King writes, the beautiful, the mundane, the ugly, the hot desolate nature of Coachella Valley. I wasn't interested in the tourism-board view of Palm Springs, of martinis by the swimming pool and candy-colored, Instagram-ready desert art installations. I was interested in the debris--architectural and natural--left behind by generations of people who lived in or visited Palm Springs to escape, to exist, to die. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Brian KingPublisher: Spurl Editions Imprint: Spurl Editions Dimensions: Width: 20.80cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 18.80cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781943679119ISBN 10: 1943679118 Pages: 112 Publication Date: 10 June 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThe images do something that many of the best photographs do; they make the familiar look strange and the strange look familiar. Palm Springs looks strange enough to begin with, and King makes it look stranger still. This is not the Palm Springs we know--in fact, it's probably better than that. So much that is quintessentially Palm Springs, all the obvious stuff, remains well outside the frame. --Geoff Nicholson, Los Angeles Review of Books The images do something that many of the best photographs do; they make the familiar look strange and the strange look familiar. Palm Springs looks strange enough to begin with, and King makes it look stranger still. This is not the Palm Springs we know--in fact, it's probably better than that. So much that is quintessentially Palm Springs, all the obvious stuff, remains well outside the frame.--Geoff Nicholson, Los Angeles Review of Books Author InformationJohn Brian King is a photographer, filmmaker, designer, and writer. His two previous photography books--LAX: Photographs of Los Angeles, 1980-84 and Nude Reagan--were also published by Spurl Editions. His photography has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Slate, Buzzfeed, Lenscratch, Amadeus, Flavorwire, AnOther, WeHeart, L'OEil de la Photographie, Impose, KCET's Artbound, and Yet Magazine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |