House of Coates
by
Brad Zellar
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1566893704
ISBN-13
9781566893701
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Imprint
Coffee House Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 6th, 2014
Print length
140 Pages
Weight
243 grams
Product Classification:
Individual photographersPhotographic reportage
Ksh 2,700.00
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The life and photographs of Lester B. Morrison, legendary recluse. Can a man living in the shadows find redemption?
"An exquisitely haunting, melancholic treasure of a book about people who drop out and populate tiny towns and rural communities, and the longing and loneliness of the human condition."—Judy Natal, Photo-Eye
"One of the great American moves is vagrancy, the freedom to drift, the right to look at things from outside the mainstream. The prose in House of Coates hums with this irreducible freedom. The photographs are both perfectly artless and undeniably visionary. Any question of fiction, non-fiction, subterfuge, or narrative trickery is superfluous in a book like this one, so appealingly strange, so delicately balanced, and so incontestably bound to its time and place."—Teju Cole, author of Open City
"A very handsome paperback edition...a new afterword wraps the whole mystery of Lester beautifully." —MinnPost
"As Brad Zellar so vividly illustrates in his new limited-edition collaboration with photographer Alec Soth, ''House Of Coates,'' broken men have always been with us, haunting us, providing a mirror. Society may label them bums, homeless, or pariahs, but Zellar''s empathetic writing allows the reader to get inside one broken man, and therefore all."—Jim Walsh, MinnPost
Washed up in the shadow of a refinery, Lester B. Morrison, legendary recluse, documents his life in a series of photographs taken with a disposable camera. In a landscape of off ramps, warehouses, and SRO hotels occupied by terminally lonely men, love and faith break in, quietly offering human connection and the possibility of redemption.
Brad Zellar has worked as a writer and editor for daily and weekly newspapers, as well as for both regional and national magazines. He is the author of Suburban World: The Norling Photos, The 1968 Project, Conductors of the Moving World, and House of Coates.
Alec Soth is a photographer whose first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004. Since then Soth has published over a dozen books including Niagara (2006), Dog Days, Bogotá (2007), The Last Days of W (2008), and Broken Manual (2010). Soth''s work has been exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.
"One of the great American moves is vagrancy, the freedom to drift, the right to look at things from outside the mainstream. The prose in House of Coates hums with this irreducible freedom. The photographs are both perfectly artless and undeniably visionary. Any question of fiction, non-fiction, subterfuge, or narrative trickery is superfluous in a book like this one, so appealingly strange, so delicately balanced, and so incontestably bound to its time and place."—Teju Cole, author of Open City
"A very handsome paperback edition...a new afterword wraps the whole mystery of Lester beautifully." —MinnPost
"As Brad Zellar so vividly illustrates in his new limited-edition collaboration with photographer Alec Soth, ''House Of Coates,'' broken men have always been with us, haunting us, providing a mirror. Society may label them bums, homeless, or pariahs, but Zellar''s empathetic writing allows the reader to get inside one broken man, and therefore all."—Jim Walsh, MinnPost
Washed up in the shadow of a refinery, Lester B. Morrison, legendary recluse, documents his life in a series of photographs taken with a disposable camera. In a landscape of off ramps, warehouses, and SRO hotels occupied by terminally lonely men, love and faith break in, quietly offering human connection and the possibility of redemption.
Brad Zellar has worked as a writer and editor for daily and weekly newspapers, as well as for both regional and national magazines. He is the author of Suburban World: The Norling Photos, The 1968 Project, Conductors of the Moving World, and House of Coates.
Alec Soth is a photographer whose first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004. Since then Soth has published over a dozen books including Niagara (2006), Dog Days, Bogotá (2007), The Last Days of W (2008), and Broken Manual (2010). Soth''s work has been exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.
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