Close Out: a conversation with Brian Ulrich

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Link: Close Out: a conversation with Brian Ulrich | The Great Leap Sideways

In this newer work, Brian has culled and edited together a collection of archival images made by press photographers at the time beginning with the end of World War II, and stretching on into the period of America’s Great Prosperity. These archival images, paired with other more contemporary Polaroids, maps, business plans, letters and objects found during his multi-year research into the aftermath of big box retail, connect the essential ideas underlying Is This Place Great or What together with their own cultural and political history.