Neon Mesa
Neon Mesa
by Rob Atkins
Signed copies, and personal inscription by the artist available on request.
Bunker Hill Publishing, 2009 | pp. 144 | Foreword by film director Godfrey Reggio
*Special Gallery Release : A complimentary copy of Neon Mesa is included with the purchase of a limited edition print ‘San Miguel County, New Mexico’, by Rob Atkins, as featured in the Print Room.
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Neon Mesa: Wonders of the Southwest is a stunning photographic record of the vernacular landscape of the American Southwest - the roadside landscape littered with the signs, relics, sights and debris of countless anonymous road trips. The Four Corners is a unique region where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet. Rob Atkins' photos capture the irony and pathos of the place in icons of the American Dream, be they those of the Nuclear Age, the Frontier, the Cowboy, or the Native American, all caught in the stark majestic images of a present already passing, in rusting road-signs, flickering neon light, and derelict motels, set against some of America's most awe-inspiring natural scenery.The dazzling light of the Southwest, the enormous skies and stark desert imagery form the back drop to Rob Atkins stunning exploration of a quintessential American landscape.