中文简介：

英国摄影师Nick Meek在英格兰北部长大，而且在好莱坞电影和电视节目中长大，对他来说，美国西部似乎一直是一片充满黄金前景和可能性的土地。在这幅精美的摄影作品中，美国的高速公路、汽车旅馆、国家公园、电影院、路标、机场、瀑布和海滩显得既浪漫又阴森，既乐观又讽刺，既朦胧又超现实，既感性又刻意。

在这里，Meek用柯达克罗姆胶卷式的橙色、黄色和浅蓝色，构建了一种好莱坞式的怀旧风格，巧妙地夸大了通常伴随着这种美国西部描写的摄影风格和肖像，同时巧妙地利用了它们的情感吸引力。

记忆的过程需要一定程度的遗忘。在这些照片中，Meek挖掘了这种差距，为那些可能从未真正存在过的场景和意义创造了空间。这是Meek的首部专著，汇编了他在2002年至2017年期间创作的备受赞誉的系列作品。

英文简介：

For British photographer Nick Meek, growing up in the North of England and raised on Hollywood movies and TV shows, the American West always seemed a terrain full of golden prospect and possibility. In this luscious photographic portrait, the country's highways, motels, national parks, movie theaters, road signs, airports, waterfalls and beaches appear at once romantic and eerie, optimistic and ironic, hazy and hyperreal, soaked in emotion and overtly artificial.

Here, in washed-out, almost painterly Kodachrome oranges, yellows and pale blues, Meek constructs a Hollywood-style nostalgia, subtly exaggerating the photographic style and iconography that typically accompany such portrayals of the West, while nonetheless ingeniously accessing their emotional pull.

The process of remembering entails a certain amount of forgetting. In these photos, Meek mines this gap, creating space for scenes and meanings that might never have really been there. This is Meek's debut monograph, compiling a selection from his acclaimed series, created between 2002 and 2017.