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American geography : a reckoning with a dream / Matt Black.
Fine Arts Library TR655 .B5425 2021
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Black, Matt, photographer, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Photographs. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black, Matt.
- Documentary photography.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Poverty--United States--Pictorial works.
- Poverty.
- Poor--United States--Portraits.
- Poor.
- United States--History--21st century--Pictorial works.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--21st century--Pictorial works.
- United States--Economic conditions--21st century--Pictorial works.
- United States--Rural conditions--21st century--Pictorial works.
- documentary photography.
- art photography.
- Social conditions.
- Rural conditions.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 167 pages : illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2021.
- Summary:
- American Geography' is the visual record of Magnum photographer Matt Black's five-year, 100,000-mile road trip across 46 states of the United States, plus Puerto Rico. It examines the conditions of powerlessness, prejudice and pragmatism among America's poor. The project originated in Matt Black's exploration of his own home town in California's rural Central Valley - a place that has been called 'the other California' - where one third of the population lives in poverty. Travelling out from that location in 2015, he went on to visit designated 'poverty areas' - places with poverty rates of above 20% as defined by the US census. He found that, rather than being anomalies, 'poverty areas' are never more than two-hour's drive apart. They are woven throughout the fabric of the country, yet are cut off from the 'land of opportunity'. Matt Black's compelling black and white photographs, from which one can trace a line back to the FSA Photographers of the 1930s and 1940s such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, are accompanied by his own travelogue - an eclectic combination of observations, overheard conversations in cafes and city buses, diner menus, bus timetables, historical facts and echoes from daily news reports - which enrich the vivid portrait of these 'states of un-America.'
- Contents:
- South and West
- South and East
- North and East
- North and West.
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One South And West
- ch. Two South And East
- ch. Three North And East.
- Notes:
- "With 97 Illustrations."
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780500545355
- 0500545359
- OCLC:
- 1263804257
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