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American Geography - A Reckoning with a Dream (Hardcover)
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American Geography - A Reckoning with a Dream (Hardcover)
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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.' With 100
illustrations in colour
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