OUT OF SEASON:
Mark Havens' ten year project on the Jersey shore documenting the architecture and signage of the 1950’s “doo wop” genre for which the Wildwoods of NJ are known has culminated with a book of more than 100 images of buildings and signage. Since the critical acclaim of this publication, select images have been editioned as fine art prints in two sizes (each editions of 7).
New Jersey has been a vacation spot for more than four decades, and home to an array of preserved midcentury motels. Sadly, the development of new condominiums has interfered with the landscape and these architectural treasures are being demolished. Mark Havens has captured their unique style from morning until night with a purposeful sparseness devoid of humans. He made 13,000 separate images edited to 105 for the book. “The visual quietude of Havens’ work invites us to linger a bit longer on elements that we might otherwise have ignored. And their strong cinematic quality — their emptiness — never lets us forget that these were dreamscapes for millions of visitors,” writes essayist Jamer Hunt.
Bibliography:
Out of Season: The Vanishing Architecture of the Wildwoods Hardcover
by Joseph Giovannini (Author), Jamer Hunt (Author), Photographs by Mark Havens - Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions and distributed by Abrams Books
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New Jersey has been a vacation spot for more than four decades, and home to an array of preserved midcentury motels. Sadly, the development of new condominiums has interfered with the landscape and these architectural treasures are being demolished. Mark Havens has captured their unique style from morning until night with a purposeful sparseness devoid of humans. He made 13,000 separate images edited to 105 for the book. “The visual quietude of Havens’ work invites us to linger a bit longer on elements that we might otherwise have ignored. And their strong cinematic quality — their emptiness — never lets us forget that these were dreamscapes for millions of visitors,” writes essayist Jamer Hunt.
Bibliography:
Out of Season: The Vanishing Architecture of the Wildwoods Hardcover
by Joseph Giovannini (Author), Jamer Hunt (Author), Photographs by Mark Havens - Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions and distributed by Abrams Books
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