{"product_id":"noticings-book","title":"Noticings Book","description":"\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eNoticings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, musician and photographer Patrick Sansone collects 136 color images made between the winter of 2019 and the summer of 2021.  As evidenced in 2010’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e100 Polaroids\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Sansone’s eye has long been drawn to the detritus of small-town midcentury Americana; but as he’s moved from instant to 35mm and medium format film, so too have the conceptual valences of his images grown and sharpened.  The weathered signs, shuttered storefronts, and vacant lots which populate many of his photographs take on a new resonance in light of the Covid-19 lockdown, as though the slow decay of the American dream had suddenly metastasized and spread outward from the heartland.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHaving toured the world with Wilco, The Autumn Defense, and other acts, Sansone has cultivated a flaneur’s appreciation for the act of wandering, ever open to encounters with overlooked beauty.  He further honed this skill during the pandemic, taking long solitary drives through the American south, stopping along the way to perambulate, and, in the process, creating a noteworthy body of patient and considered street photography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith William Eggleston he shares an impeccable eye for color and light, and an unyielding belief in the world as Duchampian readymade: rife with resplendence simply awaiting the click of a camera’s shutter.  In his elliptical approach to the human element, however -- by, essentially, depicting through omission -- Sansone aligns himself with image-makers like William Christenberry and the New Topographics.  To these influences he adds a twilight sensibility of having-been, an oblique commentary on the socio-economic underpinnings of these now largely abandoned spaces that half a century ago would have likely been photographed as thriving hubs by the likes of Stephen Shore, Ernst Haas, or Fred Herzog.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWith \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNoticings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Sansone creates a portrait of a country defined by the tension between the vestigial and the vanished.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby Christopher Bruno\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhotography by Patrick Sansone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e160 pages \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e136 Color Plates\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClothbound hardcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1st Printing\/Edition of 500\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished by Sansonica Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e12x10 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pat Sansone","offers":[{"title":"Signed","offer_id":42174273093697,"sku":"ADF19A","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Unsigned","offer_id":42174273126465,"sku":"ADF19","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2513\/6954\/files\/ADF19.png?v=1749490320","url":"https:\/\/wilcostore.myshopify.com\/products\/noticings-book","provider":"Wilco Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}