Brian Ulrich: Is This Place Great Or What

(Hardback)

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Copublished by Aperture and the Cleveland Museum of Art

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In a decade-long survey of American consumerism, Ulrich casts a wry eye on the nation's shoppers and employees in big-box outlets and thrift shops-contrasting boom-years decadence and bust-years desolation with chilling irony.--Jack Crager"American Photo" (11/01/2011)

Author Bio

Brian Ulrich holds an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. In 2009, he was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Julie Saul, New York; and Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco. Juliet B. Shor is professor of sociology at Boston College, a former Guggenheim Fellow, and the author of "The Overworked American," "The Overspent American," and "Consumerism and Its Discontents."