Lost America ::::: Night Photography of the Abandoned West

NIGHT VISION: THE ART OF URBAN EXPLORATION
Winner "Best Photography Book" at the 2009 New York Book Fair.
Released July 2008.

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Published and distributed by Chronicle Books, the10x9 softcover book is 144 pages long, containing 115 excellent reproductions of my night images. Rounding out the project are essays on the derelict Byron Hot Springs Hotel, the abandoned desert roadside, decommissioned military installations, the abandoned Southern Pacific Train Station in Downtown Oakland, CA, Aviation Warehouse, an aircraft boneyard in the high desert of Southern California, and a longer piece on the the history and philosophical mind-set of UE, and the strange attraction of creeping through abandoned military-industrial complexes in the middle of the night.

Architecture critic and futurist Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG composed a thought provoking and flattering forward. It's an elegantly laid out and beautifully printed piece, a tremendous leap in quality from my first book. You will not be disappointed.

From the Chronicle Books press release:
A booming subculture is on the rise: dubbed Urban Exploration, it involves sneaking into abandoned or off-limits factories, aviation "boneyards," decommissioned bases, and other derelict features of the military/industrial landscape. Troy Paiva is a foremost photographer of the UrbEx (as it's known to its devotees) phenomenon, and his distinctive blend of atmospheric night photos and lighting effects are the visual hallmarks of a scene that has drawn the increasing attention of the media and the public—as seen in recent programs on both the Discovery Channel ("Urban Explorers") and MTV ("Fear"). Illuminated by histories of the sites documented, Night Vision reveals the remarkable discoveries of a new generation of explorers.

Troy Paiva is an author, photographer, and urban explorer. Geoff Manaugh is the author of the popular Web site BLDGBLOG.

LOST AMERICA: THE ABANDONED ROADSIDE WEST
Released 2003, now out of print.
Used copies available here

From the Motorbooks International press release:
A stunningly photographed examination of the roadside icons that dot America's landscape. Lost America celebrates the boom-to-bust towns, aircraft bone yards, and filling stations of days past that were sacrificed at the altars of speed and technology and relegated to windswept desert plains and abandoned fields. The eye-catching and memorable photography is complemented with a succinct text history that details the rise and fall of each subject. The result is an impressive tour of an America still standing, yet largely forgotten.