{"product_id":"lost-days-endless-nights","title":"Lost Days Endless Nights","description":"\u003cb\u003eA critical study and artist’s book on the history of photography and film from Los Angeles.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLost Days, Endless Nights\u003c\/i\u003e tells a history from below—an account of the lives of the forgotten and dispossessed of Los Angeles: the unemployed, the precariously employed, the evicted, the alienated, the unhoused, the anxious, the exhausted. Through an analysis of abandoned archival works, experimental films, and other projects, Andrew Witt offers an expansive account of the artists who have lived or worked in Los Angeles, delving into the region’s history and geography, highlighting its racial, gender, and class conflicts. Presented as a series of nine case studies, Witt explores how artists as diverse as Agnès Varda, Dana Lixenberg, Allan Sekula, Catherine Opie, John Divola, Gregory Halpern, Paul Sepuya, and Guadalupe Rosales have reimagined and reshaped our understanding of contemporary Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book features portraits of those who struggle and attempt to get by in the city: dock workers, students, bus riders, petty criminals, office workers, immigrants, queer and trans activists. Set against the landscape of economic turmoil and environmental crises that shadowed the 1970s, Witt highlights the urgent need for a historical perspective of cultural retrieval and counternarrative. Extending into the present, \u003ci\u003eLost Days, Endless Nights\u003c\/i\u003e advocates for an approach that actively embraces the works and projects that have been overlooked and evicted from the historical imaginary.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57196226609534,"sku":"NW9780262049078","price":42.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780262049078.jpg?v=1778542113","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/lost-days-endless-nights","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}