{"id":7,"date":"2010-11-18T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T14:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/?p=7"},"modified":"2011-08-25T15:23:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T19:23:51","slug":"ruin-photographs-of-a-vanishing-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"RUIN: Photographs of a Vanishing America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brianvandenbrink.com\/book3.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6 alignleft\" title=\"RUIN: Photographs of a Vanishing America\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/RUIN_cover_VANDEN_BRINK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/RUIN_cover_VANDEN_BRINK.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/RUIN_cover_VANDEN_BRINK-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/RUIN_cover_VANDEN_BRINK-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>RUIN: Photographs of a Vanishing America<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Author: Brian Vanden Brink<br \/>\nHardcover, 144 pages, 50 color photos,<br \/>\n70 b&amp;w photos, 12&#8243; x 12&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>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 &amp; 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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>RUIN<\/em><\/strong> is available wherever books are sold or directly from Down East Books: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.downeast.com\/store\/product.php?productid=1966&amp;cat=720&amp;page=1\">www.downeastbooks.com<\/a><\/strong> or<br \/>\n<strong>1-800-685-7962.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUIN: Photographs of a Vanishing America Author: Brian Vanden Brink Hardcover, 144 pages, 50 color photos, 70 b&amp;w photos, 12&#8243; x 12&#8243;. Over the years, Brian Vanden Brink has stolen time from photographing the highly designed works of architects to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/?p=7\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianvandenbrink.com\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}