Title: American Desire
Photographer/s: Carl Gunhouse
Date of publication: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Dimensions: 7.5″ x 10″
Type of binding: saddle stitch
Number of pages: 24
Number of pictures: 17
Type of printing: Digital offset
Publisher: Arts and Sciences Press
Designer: Tom Marquet
Editor: Phillip Tomaru, Martin Masetto
Language: English
Category: artist book
Price: $15
Summary: Gunhouse’s series explores the ironies behind the consumption-driven American dream. For decades, Americans have felt secure and confident that their hard work and sacrifice would reward them with well-deserved comforts: a spacious, nicely-appointed home in a safe, suburban neighborhood; roomy, luxury cars and SUVs to help them transport all the material things they desire from the malls and super-stores to their great rooms; and of course, luxury goods including sleek, flat-screen TVs, home exercise equipment, and deluxe, stainless steel, commercial-grade kitchen appliances.
Gunhouse has traveled across the United States for the past five years creating a portrait of American desire and the dire consequences these yearnings have wrought: a struggling economy, half-finished commercial construction projects, abandoned suburban cineplexes, and foreclosed homes in never-completed subdivisions.
Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1976, Boston, MA
Website: www.carlgunhousephoto.com
Book link: http://artsandsciencesprojects.com/index.php?/projects/bookcarl-gunhousead/
Donated by: Carl Gunhouse
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