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Gregory Halpern - ZZYZX, Buku Foto Photobook
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It's been a while since I have bought myself a photo book. The reason why I chose to get this particular photo book is because from the reviews that I have read, almost all of them have mentioned that the sequencing and how the photos are being elaborated are ironic in one side, but also emblematic as well as a whole.
This is a take of Southern California by Gregory Halpern, a New York native. Even from the concept, it is already an irony; somebody tried to explain the essence of a particular place which he is not from. But from that point of view, an unusual take of SoCal is being projecteda stripped-out Sunset Strip. Only pavements, deserts, scorching heat and how those three elements took its toll on the people. Not in a dramatic sense, but more of how it lurks its way around; around, and in the background.
The photos show that humanity still work on a polarized basis; one that is on the verge of decay and one that has just been built. The striking value of this book is that it shows its subjects in a way that is dignified. It does not count on a clichd outlook of how people are usually portrayed on photographsbeautifully dimmed light, a expression on the face that shows that they've seen suffering. It does not buy its way from sympathy of the viewers.
It is a pure and simple narrative of Southern California. Its nature, its decadence, its developments, and its people.
October 5, 2016
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One of my favourite photobook realeases from Mack.
May 19, 2018
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4th printing The pictures in this book begin in the desert east of Los Angeles and move west through the city, ending at the Pacific. This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water, as well as the original expansion of America, which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific, thereby fulfilling its manifest destiny. The people, places, and animals in the book did exist before Halperns camera, but he has sewn these photographs into a work of fiction or fantasya structure, sequence and edit which, like Los Angeles itself, teeters on the brink of collapsing under the weight of its own strangely-shaped mass. Gregory Halpern was born in 1977 in Buffalo, New York. He has published a number of books, including A (2011), Omaha Sketchbook (2009) and East of the Sun, West of the Moon (2014), a collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato. He also edited, along with Jason Fulford, The Photographers Playbook: Over 250 Assignments and Ideas (2014). He holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2014 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship 128 pages 77 colour plates 24 cm x 29 cm Silkscreen printed hardcover Publication date: 2016
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