Binding: Paperback
Description: A taxonomy we didn t know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and photographer Julian Montague. Abandoned shopping carts are everywhere and yet we know so little about them. Where do they come from? Why are they there? Their complexity and history baffle even the most careful urban explorer. Thankfully artist Julian Montague has created a comprehensive and well - documented taxonomy with The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America. Spanning thirty - three categories from damaged fragment and plow crush to plaza drift and bus stop discard it is a tonic for times defined increasingly by rhetoric and media and less by the plain objects and facts of the real world. Montague's incomparable documentation of this common feature of the urban landscape helps us see the natural and man - made worlds and perhaps even ourselves anew. First published in 2006 to great perplexity and acclaim alike Montague's book now appears in refreshed and expanded form. Told in an exceedingly dry voice with full - color illustrations and photographs throughout it is both rigorous and absurd offering a strangely compelling vision of how we approach classify and understand the environments around us. A new afterword sheds light on the origins of the project.
Title: The Stray Shopping Carts Of Eastern North America A Guide To Field Identification
Author(s): Montague Julian
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226829104
Pages: 184 Pages, 250 Color Plates
Publication Date: 10/30/2023
Category: Individual Photographers