Description:
1st edition (signed)
Over the past six years photographer Mark Power has travelled to and fro across the US to create a complex visual narrative of a country attempting to redefine itself. This new publication, Good Morning, America (Volume One) is the first in a series of five books by Power to be produced over the next five years as a result of this ongoing project. It represents a personal and timely exploration of both the American cultural and physical landscape, and the divergence of reality and myth.
"Ranging across a grand sweep of American time and space, Power’s work recognises diverse environments and experiences. But most emphatically it is the portrait of a post-industrial culture still in the throes of convulsive change; a society where the signs of extreme inequality and degradation are now so commonplace that all across the country America seems not only falling into ruin, but falling back in time. Many of Power’s photographs are heavy with this sense of a history in reverse, and with a sadness that is deeply felt. For although his project bears all the hallmarks of a classic documentary survey, a series of detached observations that accumulate detail and weigh up evidence, Power is also seeing America through the filter of an imposing cultural legacy that helped define him.” (David Chandler)
Publication Date: 2019
Publisher: Gost
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 31 x 24.5cm
Pages: 136
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 978-1-910401-20-0
Description:
1st edition (signed)
Over the past six years photographer Mark Power has travelled to and fro across the US to create a complex visual narrative of a country attempting to redefine itself. This new publication, Good Morning, America (Volume One) is the first in a series of five books by Power to be produced over the next five years as a result of this ongoing project. It represents a personal and timely exploration of both the American cultural and physical landscape, and the divergence of reality and myth.
"Ranging across a grand sweep of American time and space, Power’s work recognises diverse environments and experiences. But most emphatically it is the portrait of a post-industrial culture still in the throes of convulsive change; a society where the signs of extreme inequality and degradation are now so commonplace that all across the country America seems not only falling into ruin, but falling back in time. Many of Power’s photographs are heavy with this sense of a history in reverse, and with a sadness that is deeply felt. For although his project bears all the hallmarks of a classic documentary survey, a series of detached observations that accumulate detail and weigh up evidence, Power is also seeing America through the filter of an imposing cultural legacy that helped define him.” (David Chandler)
Publication Date: 2019
Publisher: Gost
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 31 x 24.5cm
Pages: 136
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 978-1-910401-20-0