Word: suburbanity
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...some ways haunted me ever since,” said Hornig, who grew up outside Kansas City. “It awakened me to a set of issues that, coming from my privileged suburban background, I didn’t even realize, since they are invisible issues. It was a very painful revelation...
...permanent home for the baby girls they call by their initials, M.W. and T.W.; they intended only to provide foster care until the sisters' schizophrenic mother or another relative assumed responsibility. But that was five years ago, before the Coxes purchased a swing set, stocked their home in suburban Delafield, Wisconsin, with The Lion King, Pinocchio and Aladdin videos, and learned to distinguish M.W.'s tastes (macaroni and cheese) from T.W.'s (jelly sandwiches, hold the peanut butter). It was also before the Milwaukee County Human Services Department asked the Coxes to adopt the girls...
...Business was better, however, for cafes and pubs equipped with large TV screens. Russian fans, short of the $790 to to $4730 needed to buy a Luzhniki ticket, had booked all the city and suburban joints well in advance, eager to catch every detail of the biggest sports even staged in Moscow since the 1980 Olympics. Inevitably, it produced a bizarre mix of politics and business, diplomacy and security, sports and ideology...
...masterpiece is reappearing at the same time as another almost literally groundbreaking photo book. The New West (Aperture; 120 pages), which first came out in 1974, was Robert Adams' bid to document the world of Ansel Adams--no relation--being devoured by the forces of environmental degradation and suburban sprawl. Both these books changed what it was possible to show. More than that, they changed what it was possible...
...people, like the woman silhouetted in her living-room window in Colorado Springs, trapped in their new suburban compartments. Adams' book helped create a new kind of landscape photography, tough-minded about the mess humans make, that's been pursued by Richard Misrach, Edward Burtynsky and scores of others. Just like Frank, Adams turned American vision toward some darker realities. But if we couldn't look in that direction, why would that qualify as vision...