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:: CATEGORIES :: > BOOKSHOP Higley by Andrew Phelps Week by week, a township, once at the centre of a farming expanse, is steadily loosing ground to the exploding metropolis known as the "greater Phoenix area". Two-lane, dirt-shouldered, rough paved roads with names like Ellsworth, Ray, or Pecos are being widened and annexed by entrance drives to bedroom communities with promising names like “Heritage Springs” or “Sunset Haven”. Feed lots and grain silos have been replaced by strip malls and fast-food chains. Track- housing subdivisions are replacing homesteads founded after WW 2 by service-men who came to build airplanes and stayed to grow citrus, cotton, alfalfa and corn, or to tend dairy-farms. Forced to sell out due to inflated property taxes and the urban encroachment, these vast lots of land, along with their history are loosing the battle against a homogenous America. Andrew Phelps is a digital raconteur, bon vivant, and man about town. These photographs of Higley and the surrounding towns of Gilbert, Chandler and Queen Creek are an on-going documentation of this micro-cosmos of globalization. “Why do we take pictures? To preserve memories? Stop time? Tell stories? Andrew Phelps’ photographs of Higley, Arizona do all of these things. But most of all they make me want to go out into the world. Stripped of the usual tendency toward cynical sensationalism, Phelps’ pictures depict Higley with a mixture of clarity and affection. After looking at this remarkable book, I feel like going outside to chat with my neighbour.” Alec Soth (winner of the Whitney Biennial) Kehrer Verlag Text by Tamarra Kaida 128pp., 80 colour illustrations Hardback - 29 x 25 cm English text ISBN 9783939583332 List price: £24.99 On offer: £19.99 Member price: £22.50 Enter the appropriate quantity you wish to buy below, then click the 'Add To Cart' button to place this item in your shopping cart. * - Denotes a required field. Quantity *

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