{"product_id":"9780873516099","title":"Suburban World: The Norling Photos","description":"\u003cp\u003eMen wearing suits jousting with sailfish. Head-on bridge collision. Men with linoleum. Kitchen murder-suicide. Firemen playing donkey baseball. Ideal woman in apron. Through more than 10,000 images, Irwin Denison Norling, the unofficial town photographer for Bloomington, Minnesota, captured the strange juxtapositions, incongruities, and dark corners of the developing suburban America of the 1950s and '60s. A competitive amateur glued to his police radio, Norling spent years examining the light and darkness, tragedies and desolation, rituals of community and celebration through the lens of the camera, deftly capturing the uneasy dichotomy between the familiar and subversive–the familiarly subversive. \"That was the way it was. And the way it was, that's what I was after.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2002 veteran journalist Brad Zellar unearthed Norling's negatives from the quiet basement of the Bloomington Historical Society. Compelled by the work of this man who had all but drifted into obscurity, Zellar collects the best of these images in \u003ci\u003eSuburban World\u003c\/i\u003e, a fascinating window into the uneasy contradictions in Norling's unforgettable and unselfconscious, funny and gritty, not-too-distant past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrad Zellar\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and senior editor of the monthly magazine \u003ci\u003eThe Rake\u003c\/i\u003e. He first wrote about the Norling archive for \u003ci\u003eCity Page\u003c\/i\u003es in 2003. \u003cb\u003eAlec Soth\u003c\/b\u003e is an internationally acclaimed photographer and the author of \u003ci\u003eSleeping by the Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Minnesota Historical Society Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027608584432,"sku":"9780873516099","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780873516099_p0.jpg?v=1763839269","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780873516099","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}