American Artifacts: Phil Bergersen - Couverture rigide

Bergerson, Phil

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1908966351 ISBN 13 : 9781908966353

Editeur : Black Dog Publishing London UK, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

American Artifacts is a poetic photographic portrait of America as it simmered its way through the first decade of the twenty-first century. It reflects that span of years some have called the 'lost' decade. American Artifacts is a personal exploration by an empathetic neighbour-the Canadian documentary photographer Phil Bergerson (Born Toronto, 1947). Bergerson describes his approach as sifting through the remains of a culture-through the shards of artifacts left behind by a rushing humanity as it made its way through the streets of a tumultuous America. His book is a collection of these message shards-often ironic, sometimes full of pathos. All represent the concerns of a struggling humanity: their fears, desires, and hopes with many images vibrating between reality and metaphor. A variety of recurring themes are reflected in photographs of shop window displays, and in the objects and signs from the forgotten corners of hundreds of towns and cities he visited. The book's photographic sequence is bracketed by two powerful pieces of writing, beginning with Margaret Atwood's brilliant writing on debt from Payback, and ending with Nathan Lyons' insightful essay on 'Sequencing'.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic and essayist. Nathan Lyons is an American artist and photographer who lives and works in New York. His body of work consists primarily of photographs which focus on American culture.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Black Dog Publishing London UK
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1908966351
• ISBN 13: 9781908966353
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144