Course of the empire / Ken Light.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Light, Ken, photographer, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1953 Fund.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Photographs. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Light, Ken.

Documentary photography--United States.

Documentary photography.

Black-and-white photography--United States.

Black-and-white photography.

United States--Social conditions--21st century--Pictorial works.

United States.

United States--Economic conditions--2009---Pictorial works.

Social conditions.

Economic history.

Genre:

photobooks.

Pictorial works.

Photobooks.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Ken Light : course of the empire

Place of Publication:

Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2021.

Summary:

"A decade ago, Ken Light traveled across the United States photographing the country, an empire 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." --Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes 209 reproduced photographs.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783958299580

395829958X

OCLC:

1264402531