| Meadowlands | 
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| Creators: Joshua Lutz, Robert Sullivan
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 85542
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 108
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.6
Dimensions (in): 15.7 x 12.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1576874427
Dewey Decimal Number: 974.921
EAN: 9781576874424
ASIN: 1576874427
Publication Date: August 2008
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Product Description
"Joshua Lutz takes the New Topographics of Adams, Shore, and Sternfeld into its current era of urban sprawl." (The New Yorker)
Just two miles west of Manhattan lies the Meadowlands, a 32-square-mile stretch of sweeping wilderness that evokes morbid fantasies of Mafia hits and buried remains. Development has claimed two-thirds of the region, making way for scores of landfills, motels, and gas stations. The growth of poorly planned communities and the impending construction of Xanadu, a five million-square-foot entertainment and retail complex, threaten to change these lands forever.
Under the pretext of searching for Jimmy Hoffa, photographer Joshua Lutz began exploring these lonesome wetlands ten years ago; what started as a strict documentary project soon evolved into something else entirely. Meadowlands, Lutz?s first monograph, is a compelling portrait of this vast and stunning landscape, whose unspoiled area is quickly dwindling. The Meadowlands are a place of solitude, a place you pass through on your way somewhere more inviting?and yet, within it all resides a quiet beauty, a glimmer of hope, a hidden potential for renewal and rebirth.
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Good info, flippant attitude September 20, 2006
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Its important to know the history of places. Too often history is dry and full of dates. The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan is not like this. It is the story of his, perhaps unnatural obsession with visiting the rundown, polluted, odd place called the Meadowlands. The Meadowlands are/were a large wetland along the Hackensack river in New Jersey, within sight of Manhattan. Over the years it has been the home of pirates, inventors, mafioso, and plain old regular people. Sullivan takes you through the history and people as he tells the story of his expeditions to the Meadowlands to canoe and find places whose location has faded in modern memory. While I would not say that the book rivals Thoreau's Walden pond, it does give a good sense of the place, its place in history, and the people who lived there and continue to live there. Its a good read, it can be read in episodes, and will not bore you.
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