House of Coates Spiral-bound by Brad Zellar, Lester B. Morrison, Alec Soth
Publisher : Sun Chiapang; 2nd edition (January 1, 2006)
by Brad Zellar (Author), Lester B. Morrison (Photographer), Alec Soth (Editor)
Language : Japanese
ISBN-10 : 4898151701
ISBN-13 : 978-4898151709
"An exquisitely haunting, melancholic treasure of a book about people who drop out and populate tiny towns and rural communities, and the longing and loneliness of the human condition."—Judy Natal, Photo-Eye
"As Brad Zellar so vividly illustrates in his new limited-edition collaboration with photographer Alec Soth, 'House Of Coates,' broken men have always been with us, haunting us, providing a mirror. Society may label them bums, homeless, or pariahs, but Zellar's empathetic writing allows the reader to get inside one broken man, and therefore all."—Jim Walsh, MinnPost
HOUSE OF COATES" with text by Brad Zellar and photographs by Lester B. Morrison or, perhaps, Alec Soth. No one is quite sure.
"In House of Coates, writer Brad Zellar pieces together the story of the legendary recluse Lester B. Morrison. Working from a handful of encounters and contradictory conversations, a sketchy paper trail, and often confounding interviews with individuals who may or may not have been "associates" of Morrison (including Morrison's former collaborator Alec Soth), Zellar attempts to reconstruct one episode from Morrison's decidedly episodic life.
In the winter of 2011, Zellar finally crossed paths with his evasive subject and, with Morrison's permission, was granted access to the results of an MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) test that Morrison submitted to in August of 2009, along with the administering psychiatrist's copious notes.
Finally, in late December of last year, Zellar received in the mail a duct-taped shoebox marked "PERISHABLE," containing almost two hundred photographs that Morrison termed "disposable documents of the approximate period in question."
The book is 118 pages, with paper featuring a stiff, brown cover and spiral binding. It is the second edition of 1000, measuring 8 3/4" x 6 3/4."
