With humor and a keen eye Magnum photographer David Hurn has been photographing everyday life in Arizona since the late 1970s.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: David Hurn (b. Wales 1934) is a Magnum photographer with aninimitable talent for making the ordinary extraordinary¯.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Like Joel Meyerowitz mixed with Martin Parr everyday life in Arizona -schools, parades, the elderly in exercise classes, holidays and more. Hurn explains that he chose to photograph in Arizona because it is the most right wing state in America, plus it is the driest State in America. The exact opposite of my home country Wales.Book covers Hurn's various visits to the state between 1979 and 2001.
Magnum's David Hurn (born 1934) is one of Britain’s most important reportage photographers.
His documentary photographs are distinguished by their quiet observation and remarkable insight. “Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities,” he writes. “There is more pleasure, for me, in things as they are.”
Released to coincide with Magnum photo agency’s 70th birthday, this is the first book dedicated to Hurn’s photographs from Arizona. In 1979–80 he was awarded a UK/USA Bicentennial Fellowship, a one-year award to photograph in America. He chose Arizona, as “the most right-wing state in America, plus it is the driest state in America. The exact opposite of my home country Wales. The contrasts appealed to me.” Hurn fell in love with Arizona and made several trips back between 1979 and 2001, turning his inimitable eye to ordinary Arizonians in their daily life, their schools, exercise classes, holidays and their landscape.
Featured image is reproduced from 'David Hurn: Arizona Trips'
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Amazing and Absurd Photographs of Life in Arizona.
This 1979 photograph of the desert between Phoenix and Tuscon—the major area of potential development—is reproduced from Arizona Trips,Reel Art Press’s remarkable new collection of photographs by David Hurn. Largely made over the course of a one-year UK/USA Bicentennial Fellowship to photograph in the state of Arizona, the images gathered in this concise but impossible-to-put-down volume are universally fascinating. Football games, wild horse roundups, tarantula races, senior beauty pageants, retiree roping competitions, animal cemeteries, demolition derbies, Mexican weddings, Apache baby contests and winter cacti covered with protective paper cups are just a few of the pictures that have made this book an end-of-year favorite for CNN,The Guardian,It’s Nice That and more. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs / 150 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $39.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $53.95 ISBN: 9781909526518 PUBLISHER: Reel Art Press AVAILABLE: 12/26/2017 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AFR ME
Magnum's David Hurn (born 1934) is one of Britain’s most important reportage photographers.
His documentary photographs are distinguished by their quiet observation and remarkable insight. “Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities,” he writes. “There is more pleasure, for me, in things as they are.”
Released to coincide with Magnum photo agency’s 70th birthday, this is the first book dedicated to Hurn’s photographs from Arizona. In 1979–80 he was awarded a UK/USA Bicentennial Fellowship, a one-year award to photograph in America. He chose Arizona, as “the most right-wing state in America, plus it is the driest state in America. The exact opposite of my home country Wales. The contrasts appealed to me.” Hurn fell in love with Arizona and made several trips back between 1979 and 2001, turning his inimitable eye to ordinary Arizonians in their daily life, their schools, exercise classes, holidays and their landscape.
