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Land of the free : what makes Americans different / photographs by David Graham ; commentary by Andrei Codrescu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, David, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Portrait photography.
- United States--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 90 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Aperture Foundation, 1999.
- Summary:
- Land of the Free is photographer David Graham's tribute to the American people in all their idiosyncratic splendor. A tireless traveler and a natural-born storyteller, Graham has photographed ordinary folks in their homes and at their jobs across the nation -- from his native Pennsylvania to New Mexico, and many places in between -- to assemble a composite picture of America. Graham's portraits of celebrity impersonators are also featured; here you'll find look-alikes for Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and Roy Orbison, Bette Midler and Elizabeth Taylor.
- Land of the Free: What Makes Americans Different does for America in the 1980s and 1990s what Bill Owens's Suburbia did to capture the 1970s. It is a mirror of its time, held slightly askew by a gifted photographer, then turned upside down by a highly imaginative writer.
- The wry insights of NPR commentator and author Andrei Codrescu accompany Graham's photographs.
- ISBN:
- 0893818712 :
- OCLC:
- 42686901
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