American Ruins

This unique volume presents a stunning photographic record of American historydocumenting ruins ranging from ancient Native Amencan dwellings in theSouthwest to... » 

This unique volume presents a stunning photographic record of American historydocumenting ruins ranging from ancient Native Amencan dwellings in theSouthwest to the remains of a Gilded Age mansion on the East Coast and a kingssummer home in Hawaii. The luminous infrared photographs are accompanied bybrief essays detailing the significance of each site. In raising awareness ofrums that remain unknown even to most Americans American Ruins offers a newway of seeing the landscape and the collective identity of America. «