OP: Diners: People and Places

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Thames and Hudson, 1998. Paperback. Near Fine. Revised second edition. Teetering between obsoletion and landmark, America’s diners risk disappearing from public memory. Photographer Gerd Kittel captures East Coast diners on that precipice in his book Diners: People and Places (1990). Themes built on chrome, neon, vinyl, clapboard, and formica reflect an aesthetic which endures longer than many of the restaurants here. Kittel’s photography, offered without commentary, provides the proof that they were once here and, more than that, evokes each beholder’s personal memories which keep those beacons of casual but warm hospitality alive. Our copy is the 1998 revised second edition in paperback. Near Fine.

• Binding: Hardcover

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