Pax Americana: This too is the Auto USA
MORBIDE DREAMS The land of once unlimited possibilities, the USA, has also shown its inhabitants and visitors its limits time and again. The so often quoted freedom ended for many in poverty, abandoned ghost towns and car graveyards can sing a song about it. Swiss photographer Christian Heeb has lived in the U.S. for many years and travels the [...]
The so often quoted freedom ended for many in poverty, abandoned ghost towns and car graveyards can sing a song about it. The Swiss photographer Christian Heeb has lived in the USA for many years and travels the country again and again off the beaten and recommended tracks.
Collection of several impressions
He records his discoveries photographically. In his new book "Pax Americana" Christian Heeb has compiled a smorgasbord of several impressions. The endless expanse, paved with scrap metal, silhouettes worthy of film sets of formerly prosperous gas stations or whimsical works of art, because time and again artists can also stray into the hinterland and cavort unnoticed by any authorities.
Memories of better days
It almost hurts sometimes to see a Thunderbird held together only by rust, or to imagine how decades earlier bustling activity made the small town the center of life for its residents, now boarded up, a last small vestige of decency and respect for substance.
"Pax Americana" (ISBN 978-3-89823594-5), published by Edition Panorama, with a foreword by USA expert and journalist Stefan Wagner.
