{"product_id":"ed-deanna-templeton-contemporary-suburbium","title":"Ed \u0026 Deanna Templeton: Contemporary Suburbium","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"We were born into this situation, and made the best of what we were dealt, thriving on the sidewalks and front yards and hidden from the influence of the city until the city poured over the castle walls out into the surrounding suburbium that grew like barnacles along the edges...\u003c\/em\u003e (Ed Templeton) \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"We found ourselves in a tract of homes that felt familiar and safe. We wandered among the quiet dark tract housing, devoid of people, finally lying down together on a rectangle of grass wedged between the sidewalk and the street. We stared up at the stars talking until the sun came up.\"\u003c\/em\u003e (Deanna Templeton)\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eContemporary Suburbium\u003c\/em\u003e is a photographic meditation on living in the suburbs of Orange County, California — specifically, Huntington Beach, a seaside town on the outer extremities of the population surrounding Los Angeles. Once dotted with orange trees, oil drilling and summer cottages for the rich, Huntington Beach is now a popular beach destination for vacationers, and the old cottages are being replaced with tall modern three-story houses. The photographs in this book are a look at the people of this traditionally conservative stronghold, the disaffected youth, the fortunate (and less fortunate), as they venture out from behind fences, walls, and endless blocks of tract housing.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eReading like two opposing coming-of-age novellas about the same place, \u003cem\u003eContemporary Suburbium\u003c\/em\u003e offers a gritty and sunbaked, yet romantic view of Southern California, and of the twenty-first century in its own adolescence.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eMaking full use of the book’s accordion-bound format, husband and wife Ed and Deanna Templeton present their own photographs and words in turn, printed back-to-back on the same sheets of paper, folded together between blue cloth covers in a die cut plastic slipcase. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eEd and Deanna Templeton’s photographs have been widely exhibited and published throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. This is Ed’s second, and Deanna’s first, book published by Nazraeli Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nazraeli Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555624620089,"sku":"210000002648","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/annotation-2023-12-20-121513.jpg?v=1790279493","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/ed-deanna-templeton-contemporary-suburbium","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}