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Jack Wilson's Waltz
978-3958295476
New
Presentation by Steidl:
" In John Gossage's words this is a book « with a particular context, of photographs to settle the feeling that I did not understand my home. To do that I set out, starting in 2003, to see what clarity my pictures might bring. »
And so came into being these photos of scenes, things, minor events and the look in the eyes of the young, all taken in everyday non-iconic places throughout his travels across America.
Gossage's ongoing look at his country within these pages is like a dance: rhythmic, redeeming, restorative, intuitive; but tentatively hopeful. « I would like to believe all of it, » he writes, « that we will be saved, but on Connecticut Avenue there is graffiti that says ‘Where is Lee Harvey Oswald when we need him?’ All I can hear is the faint echoing gun shots coming from Wounded Knee. » To be continued… "
This photobook is the second one in a series of three books of the same design by John Gossage published almost simultaneously by Steidl. The other two being Should Nature Change (2019) and The Nicknames of Citizens (2020).
144 pages - Hardcover with DJ
Steidl, 2019
Format : 24 x 29 cm
New - Mint condition
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Gossage, John
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