Abandoned: Hauntingly Beautiful Deserted Theme Parks
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Abandoned: Hauntingly Beautiful Deserted Theme Parks
By (Author) Seph Lawless
Skyhorse Publishing
Skyhorse Publishing
10th October 2017
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Photojournalism and documentary photography
Travel guides: theme parks and funfairs
779.979106873
Physical Properties
Hardback
216
Width 279mm, Height 216mm, Spine 23mm
1293g
Description
Huffington Post called him a master of the abandonedand for good reason. Take a strange and wonderful photographic journey into a world time has forgottenamusement parks that have been shut down and overgrown.
The artivist known only as Seph Lawless has spent the last ten years photo-documenting the America that was left behind in the throes of economic instability and overall declinedecrepit shopping malls, houses, factories, even amusement parks.
Through nearly two hundred gorgeous and elegiac photographs, Abandoned details Lawlesss journey into what was once the very heart of American entertainment: the amusement park. Here is includes:
- Disney Worlds Discovery Island and River Country
- Joyland Amusement Park
- Dogpatch USA
- Fun Spot Amusement Park and Zoo
- Bushkill Amusement Park
- Land of Oz
- Lake Shawnee Amusement Park
- Geauga Lake Amusement Park
- Spreepark
- Chippewa Lake Amusement Park
- Enchanted Forest Playland
- And more!
Lawless visits deserted parks across the country, capturing in stark detail their dilapidated state, natural overgrowth, and obvious duality of sad and playful symbolism. Previously self-published as Bizarro, this updated edition of Lawlesss photographic tribute to decaying American amusement parks contains new content and a new foreword.
Author Bio
Seph Lawless is best known for his extensive documentation of deserted locations across the globe, and he has been photographing abandoned American cities since 2005. His images and video renderings are part of an ongoing project called Autopsy of America, which depicts forgotten cities and towns across the United States and intimately portrays the individuals who still inhabit these areas, known as the ones who were left behind. Lawlesss work has been widely reported in the Huffington Post, Daily Mail, Independent, Business Insider, Slate, and on Buzzfeed, Mashable, CNN, FOX News, NBC News, and ABC News.
