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Gregory Halpern : Let the sun beheaded be - Couverture rigide

Chéroux, Clément

 
9781597114905: Gregory Halpern : Let the sun beheaded be

Synopsis

Cette série, présentée à la fondation Cartier Bresson en 2020 puis au SF MOMA en 2021, a été réalisée par le photographe Gregory Halpern lors d'une résidence en Guadeloupe. Le titre, référence à Aimé Césaire, traduit le caractère hybride du travail d'Halpern qui a voulu témoigner à travers paysages et portraits de l'histoire mouvementée de l'archipel mais aussi de sa nature luxuriante.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gregory Halpern (born in Buffalo, New York, 1977) received a BA in history and literature from Harvard University, and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2014, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In addition to Let the Sun Beheaded Be, he has published five other books of his work, including ZZYZX (2016), Confederate Moons (2018), and Omaha Sketchbook (2019). He teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.

Clément Chéroux is the newly appointed Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Previously, he was the senior curator in the Department of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and chief curator of photography at the Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and educator. His publication One Wall a Web (2018) won the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In Let the Sun Beheaded Be, photographer Gregory Halpern focuses on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, a French overseas region with a complicated colonial history. Renowned for his photographic meditations on place, Halpern presents a compelling new work, an extension of his characteristic attention to the way details of a landscape, and the people who inhabit it, often reveal undercurrents of local histories and experiences. A text by curator and editor Clément Chéroux grapples with the island’s history in relation to the French Revolution, Surrealism, and the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, whose writing inspired the title of the book and many of the images inside

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