[Note: The Online Photographer's M.C., majordomo, and Chief Bottlewasher, Mike J., just had his eye operated on and is recuperating. Big rule during recovery: no screens, no reading, lie flat and stare at the ceiling. He got an Echo and is listening to Audible books! Meanwhile, for your amusement and edification, a few bon mots from other writers and photographers. One will be published every day while Mike’s away.]
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Robert Adams, Colorado Springs, from The New West, p. 40
"Tracts and Mobile Homes: A strip city, largely suburban, is evolving along the Front Range from Wyoming to New Mexico. Development has been anarchic, building is monotonous, and life inside is frozen by anonymity and loneliness.
"Few of the new houses will stand in fifty years: linoleum buckles on counter tops, and unseasoned lumber twists walls out of plumb before the first occupants arrive.
"Visible out picture windows, however, are fragments of open sky and long views that obscurely make radiant even what frightens us."
—Robert Adams, from The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, p. 23.
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The quote is from the 2016 Steidl reprint, which is already out of print and rising in price. Originally published in 1974, the book has been described as "A longstanding classic of photobook publishing."
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