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(LONGSTRETH, JAKE). Longstreth, Jake. Los Angeles, CA: The Ice Plant, 2018. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.

np (80pp), 59 color illustrations + color cover. "From 2008 to 2012, often in the dead of summer, American painter Jake Longstreth photographed the dusty, utilitarian Central Valley of California - a severe inland topography formerly occupied by the massive Tulare Lake. With a tonal restraint echoing the style of his own flatly realistic paintings, Longstreth’s photographs capture the hazy, blinding sunlight and muted palette of this region, a topography that has been transformed from a lush, wild terrain celebrated by John Muir in 1868 as "one smooth, continuous bed of honey-bloom" into the monotonously fertile industrial farmland it is today. "Millions of people pass over the dry lake-bed in their cars every year, unaware of its previous existence", Longstreth notes with ambivalent fascination. "A Taco Bell now stands roughly where the shores of Tulare Lake once were." A brand new, most handsome example of the 2018 first The Ice Plant edition limited to seven hundred copies additionally SIGNED "Jake Longstreth" in ink on the title page.

978-0-9992655-2-9 Inventory Number: E000JLT