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| | MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGS Ken Light: Course of the EmpireSTEIDLA decade of mounting tension in a polarized America, from Wall Street to the rural heartland Clth, 10.5 x 11 in. / 276 pgs / 209 bw. | 9/28/2021 | In stock $65.00
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| | | Published by Steidl. Text by Ken Light.A decade ago, Ken Light (born 1951) traveled across the United States photographing a country that he realized was the most fragile of organisms. The photographs of the earlier years in this book create the context for understanding how America lost its way. Light reached all four corners of the country to document people across race, class and political lines. We see the heartland and the coastal cities, Wall Street and rural small towns. As he continued, seismic changes erupted across America and the country descended into an age of crisis. He photographed protests and Washington politicians in Congress and the White House, climate change disasters and environmental defenders, the rise of the regime of Donald Trump, the Trump rallies and America’s reactions to it all. He comprehensively probed the fractured social and economic condition, going beyond the tropes of inequality we all recite by heart to create a visual portrait of a country mired in calamity, its people deeply splintered, angry and in pain. The resulting portrait of the American social landscape is a riveting historical and visual record of a complicated country in a complicated time. It is compelling, and one of the earliest photographic accounts of an age that historians and citizens will be scrutinizing for generations to come. BOOK FORMAT Clth, 10.5 x 11 in. / 276 pgs / 209 bw. PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 9/28/2021 Active DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2021 p. 99 PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783958299580 TRADE List Price: $65.00 CDN $88.00 AVAILABILITY In stock Free Shipping UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S. FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS |
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