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Bicycles Locked To Poles by John Glassie: Quirky Coffee Table Book + Wall Art

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This eclectic book is full of bicycles in sad states locked to poles.  That's really it, and it's quite fun.  Every page could easily be removed and framed to hang on the wall, as there's a large white "matte" area around each rectangle photo.

This mournful but pleasing collection features many of the best photographs of bicycles locked to poles ever taken. Shot using a old fashioned 35mm Nikon, and in many cases by waiting days for Alternate-Side-of-the-Street parking regulations to take effect, the photos here follow in the tradition of John James Audubon, Bernd and Hilla Becher, the Peterson Field Guides, and The Observers Book of Steam Locomotives. Bicycles Locked to Poles began in early 2001, when a magenta arrow-spray-painted on the sidewalk by a representative of the electrical utility-pointed directly to the sadly bent, Dali-esque wheel of a bicycle on the photographer's street. Glassie passed by every day for months, until one day it was gone. He has been documenting bicycles (bent, broken, and otherwise) locked to poles in and around his East Village neighborhood of New York ever since.

This volume presents a careful selection from Glassie's collection of over a thousand color photographs, as well as a graphical guide to present, damaged, and missing bicycle parts and a quote from Marvin Minsky's The Society of Mind. Bicycles Locked to Poles is a rare treasury for anyone interested in bikes, poles, locks, or the forgotten artifacts of the urban landscape.
 
Condition
 
This book lived in Norther Cycles work shop for years, and thus the cover has gotten dirty.  But, the pages inside are mostly perfect!
 
Details
 
  • ISBN: 1932416250
  • Publisher: McSweeney's
  • Paperback : 87 pages
  • Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches

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