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.

These 3 books feature essays written by, or interviews with me.
They all feature numerous images of mine as well. All come highly recommended.

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.