The book begins in the future. In the Archeo News from the year 3005 we can read among others the entry from December 24th:
Tire tracks, chewing gum, bolts, pegs, screws, pins, nails, and human hair detected in ancient asphalt driveway.
AN ARCHAELOGICAL SENSATION!!! If the experts began to reconstruct the life in the time from which this discovery dates, then it would definitely look like the pictures in this book. The streets, the cars, which leave their traces on them, the houses, which are held together by anchors and screws, the people, who belong to the excavated hair and chew chewing gum.
But it may be doubted if this reconstruction would be able to draw a comparably natural and deep image of Atlanta and its surroundings, this region on the south of the United States at the end of the 20th century, like Mark Steinmetz successfully does. With GREATER ATLANTA Steinmetz provides a touching and thoughtful portrait of civilization, which proves how worthwhile and important it is to deal with cars and phones, drugstores and landscapes and the people, which are moving in that world, in the present time as well.
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Nazraeli Press, 2009 /// 265 x 305 mm /// 88 pages /// 73 duotone plates /// hardcover /// English
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€60.00
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