No Circus

by D.J. Waldie (Author), Randi Malkin Steinberger (Author)

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Hardcover
2016
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No Circus brings together photographs by Los Angeles-based Randi Malkin Steinberger (born 1960) of buildings tented for termite fumigation around Los Angeles. After moving to the city in the early '90s, she encountered these shrouded structures and began to stop and photograph them, knowing that the tent might be undraped at any given moment.
Steinberger was intrigued by the way the colors and shapes of the tents showed off the forms below and highlighted the beauty of the poor plants on the outside, still flourishing, unaware that they were slowly being poisoned. Beyond the intended purpose of fumigation, these tents unwittingly allow us to stop and contemplate not only architectural form and the meaning of home, but also the Southern California lifestyle more broadly.

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No Circus brings together photographs by Los Angeles-based Randi Malkin Steinberger (born 1960) of buildings tented for termite fumigation around Los Angeles. After moving to the city in the early '90s, she encountered these shrouded structures and began to stop and photograph them, knowing that the tent might be undraped at any given moment.
Steinberger was intrigued by the way the colors and shapes of the tents showed off the forms below and highlighted the beauty of the poor plants on the outside, still flourishing, unaware that they were slowly being poisoned. Beyond the intended purpose of fumigation, these tents unwittingly allow us to stop and contemplate not only architectural form and the meaning of home, but also the Southern California lifestyle more broadly.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 126
Edition: 01
Publisher: Damiani
Published: 06 Sep 2016
ISBN 10: 8862084803
ISBN 13: 9788862084802

Media Reviews

What may have appeared to be the first signs of some cheerfully unhinged suburban dystopia, in fact, had a much more practical explanation: the tents were covering houses being fumigated. They are a familiar sight for Angelenos, Steinberger soon found, and over the course of a decade she came across hundreds of them driving around the city. In her new book, No Circus, she collects over 60 photographs capturing the houses temporarily shrouded in colorful tarpaulin.--Meg Miller Fast Company

Author Bio

Randi Malkin Steinberger is an American photographer and documentary filmmaker whose work has been shown worldwide. Malkin Steinberger's experience as a photographer and filmmaker was shaped by her studies in Italy, where she lived for ten years while launching a photography school and gallery. She has produced artists' books that are now part of the permanent collections of New York's Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Art Institute and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Malkin Steinberger's documentary films include Holidays, which was shot in Jerusalem, Florence, and Las Vegas and aired on the Sundance Channel. She is represented by Sears Peyton Gallery in New York and Los Angeles. Malkin Steinberger resides in Los Angeles.