Produced by Also As Well Too Artist Book Library & Press in collaboration with PLATFORM centre.
 
In rural Manitoba the telephone booth is often the only mid-century modernist structure in the landscape. A building that only one person stands inside will someday seem quaint, if not bewildering. The life of these structures is not only a matter of architectural history. They played a significant role in pop culture and symbolically, in their day, as emblems of modern technology.
 
Prairie Modernist Noir: The Disappearance of the Manitoba Telephone Booth is a bookwork that poetically and visually explores and documents the meaning, history, and architecture of the Manitoba telephone booth. Randolph spent six months exploring the province and photographing the last of Manitoba’s telephone booths with an old obsolete iPhone. Notably, MTS itself has also recently become obsolete, with Bell’s takeover of MTS in early 2017.
 
The book is based on a script from a performance Jeanne gave on 15 October at PLATFORM. Prairie Modernist Noir also took form as an exhibition at PLATFORM, running from 16 November–07 December 2018.
 
$20.00. Colour. 2018.