Visual Studies Workshop Press ~ New York

This Is Not America, Either
By Balaza Czeizel, Balaza
1993. Edition of 1000.

96 pages. Smythe sewn with paper covers. A commentary on Los Angeles as the theme city for the post-New-Deal America - "a biomodel boomtown on a metropolitan scale." Filled with black-and-white images of Hollywood as well as downtown, East and South-Central Los Angeles, this quasi-montage is a journey through the street life of Los Angeles. It challenges the notion that America is a glamorous haven for all. Produced and printed for Montage 93, International Festival of the Image.

Balazs Czeizel spent a year in Los Angeles, photographing and collecting images, news items, and advertisements about the city and its inhabitants, pets, cars, music, and way of life. The result is this montage of photos, computer images, texts and typefaces which combine to create the impressions of a "drive" through the city as seen through the eyes of a Central-European.
$25

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