{"product_id":"signs-and-visions-9781966515739","title":"Signs and Visions","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis book of photographs, documenting urban and suburban architecture from the seventies and eighties, uncovers the hidden, abstract, even painterly beauty found in America's often-overlooked, seedy industrial back alleys and passageways.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book is also a record of a time and of real--though now mostly redeveloped--places, provoking an inevitable sense of nostalgia. In many scenes, the images depict not random signs and residues of human activity but intentional messages and visions expressed through architecture, advertising, graffiti, and even art, occasionally imbuing the subject with an unintended surrealism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeading up to the medium-format photographs of the book, sixteen Polaroid SX-70 photographs move from realistic scenes in ex suburbia to increasingly abstract views of often-overlooked details on city streets, such as close-up building details and the hues of car hoods against graffitied walls. With its soft undersaturated palette and its tendency toward translucency, the SX-70 film\/print became a means of turning landscapes and urban scenery into miniature still lifes, evoking earlier snapshot photography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Von Zur Muehlen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goff Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.2lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.30h x 11.60w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781966515739","brand":"Goff Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48950014181513,"sku":"9781966515739","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_86d03e24-7d4f-4642-a5dc-614d778f5d77.jpg?v=1794299775","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/signs-and-visions-9781966515739","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}