Empire
By: Martin Hyers and William Mebane
Contributors: Mebane, William, photographer; Daylight Community Arts Foundation; Columbia College (Chicago, Ill.). Museum of Contemporary Photography
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Daylight
Published: 2014
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780988983182
Subjects: Domestic Architecture; Material culture; Manners and customs; Pictorial works; Social life and customs
Notes: Published in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago.

"From 2004 to 2007 Martin Hyers and Will Mebane spent many months traveling across the United States on a picture-finding mission. Their goal was to photograph objects in people's homes and workplaces in order to fashion a time capsule of American material culture. ... In 2009, the artists began to document homes as a logical next step to the Empire pictures, to provide context for the objects. They mounted a strobe onto the roof of their car ... From homes the pair expanded their interests to Las Vegas, cars, zoos, and finally Here, a collection of images of retail stores, downtowns, restaurants, roads, overpasses, and other places where life takes place in public"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.