The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America by Julian Montague

A new afterword sheds light on the origins of the project. The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague secured 1866 out of a total of more than 5500 votes from a six-strong short-list for the. I guess we need to rescue shopping carts now, its not just dogs and cats anymore. Told in an exceedingly dry voice, with full-color illustrations and photographs throughout, it is both rigorous and absurd, offering a strangely compelling vision of how we approach, classify, and understand the environments around us. The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America by Julian Montague. Montague’s incomparable documentation of this common feature of the urban landscape helps us see the natural and man-made worlds-and perhaps even ourselves-anew.įirst published in 2006 to great perplexity and acclaim alike, Montague’s book now appears in refreshed and expanded form. Spanning thirty-three categories from damaged, fragment, and plow crush to plaza drift and bus stop discard, it is a tonic for times defined increasingly by rhetoric and media and less by the plain objects and facts of the real world.

Thankfully, artist Julian Montague has created a comprehensive and well-documented taxonomy with The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America. Where do they come from? Why are they there? Their complexity and history baffle even the most careful urban explorer. The Stray Shopping Carts Of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification was published by.

A taxonomy we didn’t know we needed for identifying and cataloging stray shopping carts by artist and photographer Julian Montague.Ībandoned shopping carts are everywhere, and yet we know so little about them. A must-have for anyone with a passion for shopping carts and a love of the great outdoors.In The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America author Julian. Julian Montague, Stray Shopping Cart Exhibition.