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    Desolate Barns of the West
    Desolate Barns of the West
    Desolate Barns of the West
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    Desolate Barns of the West

    By Marques Vickers

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    This edition represents a photographic celebration of damaged and often abandoned barns and silos located within the rural Western United States. Over fifty structures are photographed amidst a backdrop of panoramic mountains, turbulent rivers and sagebrush flatlands. Many are inaccessible via roadways or difficult to approach due to private property restrictions. The captures images are spread over California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana.

    The objective of this photography project is to isolate the abandoned and frequently decaying remnants of a uniquely national architecture treasure. Barns and silos represent an iconic and important American rural tradition.
    An altered historic frontier has left many of these monoliths forsaken and deteriorating organically into the landscape. American agriculture has become forever transformed by advanced machinery, technology and the consolidation of land holdings. These remaining stately buildings represent a crossroads between traditional rural lifestyle and the effects of modernity.

    In numerous instances, timber framed structures undergo a gradual deterioration before collapsing into splinted heaps. Their disintegrating structural supports corrode until gravity ultimately prevails. The wood remnants are often simply left to blend harmoniously into the natural surroundings.
    The isolation and expansive landscape of the American northwest provides an evocative comparison to contemporary confined urban and suburban environments. The continuity of these utilitarian structures remains timeless in spite of their condition.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarques Vickers
    Release dateJun 3, 2020
    ISBN9780463506387
    Desolate Barns of the West
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    Marques Vickers

    Visual Artist, Writer and Photographer Marques Vickers is a California native presently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, Washington regions.He was born in 1957 and raised in Vallejo, California. He is a 1979 Business Administration graduate from Azusa Pacific University in the Los Angeles area. Following graduation, he became the Public Relations and ultimately Executive Director of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce between 1979-84. He subsequently became the Vice President of Sales for AsTRA Tours and Travel in Westwood between 1984-86.Following a one-year residence in Dijon, France where he studied at the University of Bourgogne, he began Marquis Enterprises in 1987. His company operations have included sports apparel exporting, travel and tour operations, wine brokering, publishing, rare book and collectibles reselling. He has established numerous e-commerce, barter exchange and art websites including MarquesV.com, ArtsInAmerica.com, InsiderSeriesBooks.com, DiscountVintages.com and WineScalper.com.Between 2005-2009, he relocated to the Languedoc region of southern France. He concentrated on his painting and sculptural work while restoring two 19th century stone village residences. His figurative painting, photography and sculptural works have been sold and exhibited internationally since 1986. He re-established his Pacific Coast residence in 2009 and has focused his creative productivity on writing and photography.His published works span a diverse variety of subjects including true crime, international travel, California wines, architecture, history, Southern France, Pacific Coast attractions, fiction, auctions, fine art marketing, poetry, fiction and photojournalism.He has two daughters, Charline and Caroline who presently reside in Europe.

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      Desolate Barns of the West - Marques Vickers

      Desolate Barns of the West

      Abandoned Institutions of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana

      Published by Marques Vickers at Smashwords

      Copyright 2017-2023

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Northern California

      Oregon

      Washington

      Idaho

      Montana

      About The Author

      The Vanishing Architectural Icons of the American West

      The mystique of the American West has been personified primarily by staged presentations, films and media embellishment of historical cowboy culture. A truer icon of our national rural tradition is more closely symbolized by roofed agrarian storage structures, commonly known as barns and silos.

      Empty and expansive western agricultural landscape is interspersed by thousands of these utilitarian edifices. The majority of them remain operational.

      The focus of this work is oriented towards the abandoned and frequently decaying remnants. In many instances, timber framed structures are left to deteriorate organically into the landscape from which they were constructed. Some ultimately collapse into splinted heaps before dismantlement, weakened by their disintegrating structural support.

      During a Spring 2017 excursion, I became captivated by the shadows they cast

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