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NEW BOOK
Spring 2009
RUIN: Photographs of a Vanishing America
Author: Brian Vanden Brink
Hardcover, 144 pages, 50 color photos, 70 b&w photos, 12" x 12".
Over the years, Brian Vanden Brink has stolen time from photographing the highly designed works of architects to focus on deserted homes, architectural ruins and their relationships to the surrounding landscape. In RUIN, Vanden Brink captures and illuminates in stunning color and black & white images churches, mills, bridges, grain elevators, storefronts, the 300-foot-tall chimney of a lead smelter, and the pitch-black depths of an Air Force plutonium storage vault. Through Vanden Brink's lens, these structures become iconic, representing an America that was built and then abandoned. His photos capture the long, slow demise of structures that once held immense import and usefulness. With text by historic preservation and architecture expert Howard Mansfield, this collections of photos grants permanence to places that may soon vanish forever.
RUIN soon to be available wherever books are sold or directly from Down East Books: www.downeastbooks.com or 1-800-685-7962.
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Schedule of Events
revised 05/15/2009
RUIN: Book Launch
Cocktail reception and slideshow presentation
June 12, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
The Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Rockland, Maine
207-596-6457
RUIN: Gallery Show
June 26 - July 26, 2009
June Fitzpatrick Gallery
112 High Street
Portland, Maine
207-772-1961
RUIN: Lecture
September 6, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art
162 Russell Ave.
Rockport, Maine
207-236-2875
WORKSHOP: Photographing Residential Architecture
Oct 4 - Oct 10
Maine Media Workshops
70 Camden St.
Rockport, Maine
877-577-7700
Registration Information
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