Mathers, Michael. Riding the Rails by Michael Mathers. Documentary photography book. Untitled (Friends of Photography) Moving away from his famous

Moving away from his famous documentation of suburban sprawl (the "New Topographics")

Neighborhood Microcosms: Rosskam explores the architectural and cultural contrasts of the city

helping to expand the boundaries of British fine-art photography during a period of institutional growth in the mid-1970s

is a homecoming document of staggering intensity

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Mathers, Michael. Riding the Rails by Michael Mathers. Documentary photography book. Untitled (Friends of Photography) Moving away from his famousGambit, 1973. First edition (later reprinted), ex library hardcover with protected dust jacket. Photographs of and statements by homeless railroad tramps who ride the rails, with autobiographical text by Mathers who road the rails with them. Excellent example of documentary photography of wanderers. Tape stains on book where former dust jacket protector attached, lacking rear flyleaf, dust jacket very good with spine label. Front flap of dust jacket