Other ed.: First edition, first printing 2000, limited to 1000 case-bound copies. - [Text at Schaden.com:] Kennern der amerikanischen New-Color-Fotografie ist der Name John Divola ein Begriff. Der Mitstreiter von Eggleston, Shore und Konsorten legt uns mit "Isolated Houses" die atemberaubenden Weiten Amerikas zu Füßen. Selbst der Schutzumschlag fungiert als 35mm-Panorama, das jeden €.päer erschauern läßt... - From the publisher: "Los Angeles is a centrifugal city, fundamentally American in its tendency toward the periphery. Isolated Houses focuses on the urban sprawl's outer frontier. Here, 150 miles outside the city, the built environment comprises a handful of rudimentary structures, isolated cubes at the edge of the infinite plane of the desert. The dwellings that dot the landscape seem temporary and toylike, but are the center of these photographs, the reason for their being."
Introduction by John Divola and essay by film critic Edward Dimendberg. - From the publisher: "The creation of seamless illusion remains a driving tenet of Hollywood cinema. In order to preserve this illusion, no disruptions of cinematic space and time can be allowed. After collecting these discarded photographs from the Warner Brothers 1930's film sets, Divola began to group the randomly found images in haunting installations of fictive reality."