Omaha Sketchbook

@ Halpern, Gregory

978-1912339440

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Presentation by Mack Books:

" « Throughout his career, Gregory Halpern has explored the elusive, inchoate notion of Americanness. It is both a difficult subject and a lofty prospect for any photographer and it remains an absolutely essential line of investigation, particularly in the context of the current political maelstrom.

Traveling to the nation's heartland—a vague construct increasingly synonymous with the Bible belt—Halpern continues to mine this idea of Americanness in a place bounded by prairie and steeped in pioneer history. His work in the midwestern city of Omaha reveals America as pluralized, fragmented, and teeming with its own brand of hypermasculinity, as he terms it: adolescents on the cusp of promise or obscurity, land that seemingly leads to nowhere, a sense of unending time and a dark side to domesticity.

Halpern's efforts to visualize America yield an opportunity to learn about the country by staring back at images of it that breed their own complexity. »

              -- Amanda Maddox, J. Paul Getty Museum

For the last fifteen years, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in Omaha, Nebraska, steadily compiling a lyrical, if equivocal, response to the American Heartland. In loosely-collaged spreads that reproduce his construction-paper sketchbooks, Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies, playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place.

Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power. "

This book is SOLD OUT by the publisher (last copies currently direct-selling for £90).

144 pages - Softcover

Mack Books, 2019

Format : 23 x 29 cm

New - Mint condition

This book is no longer in stock

$91.54

Halpern, Gregory

Gregory Halpern is an American photographer; he is also a teacher at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He joins the Magnum Photos agency in 2018. Among the photobooks of his work: "A" (J&L Books, 2011), ZZYZX (Mack Books, 2016), "Let the Sun Beheaded Be" (Aperture, 2020). He has also co-edited with Jason Fulford an educational book for photography students titled "The Photographer's Playbook - 307 Assignments and Ideas" (Aperture, 2014). © Portrait taken from the Magnum Photos website
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