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Trek: David Carson, Recent Werk [Hardcover]

David Carson (Author), Jamie Brisick (Contributor)
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December 2003
Trek is a collection of David Carson's most evocative photographs: everyday people, places and objects transformed through an extraordinary sense of color, free association, and vision. An original way of seeing that elevates deceptively ordinary snapshots into elegant 'painted' images that are charged with an eerie kind of beauty.

With Trek, David Carson is deftly shuffling the deck, bridging an elusive gap between two different genres. These images represent every corner of the world, and what he's chosen to record is usually what we would miss, that carsonesque spot where his eye rests.

David Carson's photography was exhibited in San Francisco and London in 1999, and is currently touring Europe. He won the International Center of Photography's coveted award for best use of design in photography. He works out of New York as film director, lecturer, designer, consultant, and author.


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"David Carson continues to be one of the world's most distinctive typographic voices--much imitated, but never matched" -- I.D. Magazine 2005 Annual Design Review

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Gingko Press (December 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1584230460
  • ISBN-13: 978-1584230465
  • Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9.7 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #815,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Cotton Candy, February 9, 2004
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Nothing new here... except maybe the over the top self reverential entries... a page from a past calendar logging his world tour espousing his personal greatness in the design world and a picture of him paddling out from his home in paradise... with quotes about how meaningful it is to be a god of design... arrogant self serving propoganda in a flashy package... Trek is like cotton candy it looks enticing and mouthwatering from a distance but once you get ahold of it, your joy is shortlived... its a sticky, sugary, syrupy mess that winds up in the trash after a few bites... Carson is old news... repetitive and trite... for real bleeding edge design thats not old news try AREA from Phaidon now thats substance.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth Buying For!, August 4, 2005
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madstoner "stone" (Cyberjaya, Malaysia) - See all my reviews
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What else can you say to this book when you see 400 pages plus of David Carson recent works? This book is one of a kind design book that will answer all your design influence. This book is marveleous and superbly done and when the first time i open this book, the first thing that came out of my mouth is "Oh! My God!". For those who missed Ray Gun a lot, then Trek will answer all your misery of missing Ray Gun.

If you a designer that love Pop Art and Fonts very much, then this book is the right answer. For me, this book is the dictionary of design influence and idea. Don't buy this book if you not a designer because you won't like it.

From the first time i opened this book, i've been using this book as my guide book of all my design since then. Truly, David Carson is my idol!
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars great inspiration, regardless of your field, November 9, 2004
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james brisick (ny, ny United States) - See all my reviews
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what i enjoy about carson's work, and what this book represents, is a lot of inspiration that can be applied anywhere. i've always felt carson works from a foundation of ideas that root the work, but then a certain immediateness, a looseness, that allows the work to feel fresh and contemporary. thank you, david, for another great book.
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