ZZYZX (signed)
by Gregory Halpern
Photographs: Gregory Halpern
Publisher: Mack Books
128 pages
Pictures: 77 (color)
Year: November 2016
ISBN: 9781910164655-X
Comments: Silkscreen printed hardcover, first edition second printing, 24 cm x 29 cm
[…] traditional American landscape photography has become a rather moribund photographic trope [...] a sanctified, cliched reverence has become the norm. In Halpern’s California work, I see him removing himself from the comforts of the past and endeavoring to strike out afresh, rethinking his conditioning and antecedents to break free of this particular mould.
— Chris Killip
Beauty and its implication of promise is the metaphor that gives art its value. It helps us rediscover some of our best intuitions, the ones that encourage caring.
— Robert Adams
The early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies – sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid row—but the place is not so easily distilled or visualized, either as a clichéd paradise or as its demise. There’s a strange kind of harmony when it’s all seen together—the sublime, the psychedelic, the self-destructive. Like all places, it’s unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes. Cultures and histories coexist, the beautiful sits next to the ugly, the redemptive next to the despairing, and all under a strange and singular light, as transcendent as it is harsh.
The pictures in this book begin in the desert east of Los Angeles and move west through the city, ending at the Pacific. This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water, as well as the original expansion of America, which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific, thereby fulfilling its “manifest” destiny.
The people, places, and animals in the book did exist before Halpern’s camera, but he has sewn these photographs into a work of fiction or fantasy—a structure, sequence and edit which, like Los Angeles itself, teeters on the brink of collapsing under the weight of its own strangely-shaped mass.
Gregory Halpern was born in 1977 in Buffalo, New York. He has published a number of books, including A (2011), Omaha Sketchbook (2009) and East of the Sun, West of the Moon (2014), a collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato. He also edited, along with Jason Fulford, The Photographer’s Playbook: Over 250 Assignments and Ideas (2014). He holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2014 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Selected by TIME as one of the Best Photobooks 2016
Winner of Photobook of the Year at the 2016 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards
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ZZYZX (signed)
by Gregory Halpern
Photographs: Gregory Halpern
Publisher: Mack Books
128 pages
Pictures: 77 (color)
Year: November 2016
ISBN: 9781910164655-X
Comments: Silkscreen printed hardcover, first edition second printing, 24 cm x 29 cm
[…] traditional American landscape photography has become a rather moribund photographic trope [...] a sanctified, cliched reverence has become the norm. In Halpern’s California work, I see him removing himself from the comforts of the past and endeavoring to strike out afresh, rethinking his conditioning and antecedents to break free of this particular mould.
— Chris Killip
Beauty and its implication of promise is the metaphor that gives art its value. It helps us rediscover some of our best intuitions, the ones that encourage caring.
— Robert Adams
The early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies – sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid row—but the place is not so easily distilled or visualized, either as a clichéd paradise or as its demise. There’s a strange kind of harmony when it’s all seen together—the sublime, the psychedelic, the self-destructive. Like all places, it’s unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes. Cultures and histories coexist, the beautiful sits next to the ugly, the redemptive next to the despairing, and all under a strange and singular light, as transcendent as it is harsh.
The pictures in this book begin in the desert east of Los Angeles and move west through the city, ending at the Pacific. This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water, as well as the original expansion of America, which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific, thereby fulfilling its “manifest” destiny.
The people, places, and animals in the book did exist before Halpern’s camera, but he has sewn these photographs into a work of fiction or fantasy—a structure, sequence and edit which, like Los Angeles itself, teeters on the brink of collapsing under the weight of its own strangely-shaped mass.
Gregory Halpern was born in 1977 in Buffalo, New York. He has published a number of books, including A (2011), Omaha Sketchbook (2009) and East of the Sun, West of the Moon (2014), a collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato. He also edited, along with Jason Fulford, The Photographer’s Playbook: Over 250 Assignments and Ideas (2014). He holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2014 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Selected by TIME as one of the Best Photobooks 2016
Winner of Photobook of the Year at the 2016 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards
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ZZYZX (signed)
by Gregory Halpern
Photographs: Gregory Halpern
Publisher: Mack Books
128 pages
Pictures: 77 (color)
Year: November 2016
ISBN: 9781910164655-X
Comments: Silkscreen printed hardcover, first edition second printing, 24 cm x 29 cm
[…] traditional American landscape photography has become a rather moribund photographic trope [...] a sanctified, cliched reverence has become the norm. In Halpern’s California work, I see him removing himself from the comforts of the past and endeavoring to strike out afresh, rethinking his conditioning and antecedents to break free of this particular mould.
— Chris Killip
Beauty and its implication of promise is the metaphor that gives art its value. It helps us rediscover some of our best intuitions, the ones that encourage caring.
— Robert Adams
The early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies – sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid row—but the place is not so easily distilled or visualized, either as a clichéd paradise or as its demise. There’s a strange kind of harmony when it’s all seen together—the sublime, the psychedelic, the self-destructive. Like all places, it’s unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes. Cultures and histories coexist, the beautiful sits next to the ugly, the redemptive next to the despairing, and all under a strange and singular light, as transcendent as it is harsh.
The pictures in this book begin in the desert east of Los Angeles and move west through the city, ending at the Pacific. This general westward movement alludes to a thirst for water, as well as the original expansion of America, which was born in the East and which hungrily drove itself West until reaching the Pacific, thereby fulfilling its “manifest” destiny.
The people, places, and animals in the book did exist before Halpern’s camera, but he has sewn these photographs into a work of fiction or fantasy—a structure, sequence and edit which, like Los Angeles itself, teeters on the brink of collapsing under the weight of its own strangely-shaped mass.
Gregory Halpern was born in 1977 in Buffalo, New York. He has published a number of books, including A (2011), Omaha Sketchbook (2009) and East of the Sun, West of the Moon (2014), a collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato. He also edited, along with Jason Fulford, The Photographer’s Playbook: Over 250 Assignments and Ideas (2014). He holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2014 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Selected by TIME as one of the Best Photobooks 2016
Winner of Photobook of the Year at the 2016 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards
More books by Gregory Halpern
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ZZYZX (first edition - signed - last copy)
by Gregory Halpern
sold out -
Omaha Sketchbook
by Gregory Halpern
sold out
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-
Travelling Light
by Paul Weinberg
Euro 50 -
Le Caire
by Denis Dailleux
sold out -
Early Work (signed last copy)
by Rene Groebli
Euro 125 -
Pecorino Calendar 2011
by Toni Anzenberger
Euro 49 -
Inner Mongolia (signed+print - last copy)
by Ekaterina Anokhina
Euro 295 -
Volti di Cavallino Treporti (signed)
by Fausto Giaccone
Euro 30
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-
The Naming of a River (signed)
by Cheng Xinhao
sold out -
Wilted Country (signed)
by Roger Eberhard
sold out -
Small Things in Silence
by Masao Yamamoto
Euro 57 -
Jantar Mantar
by Simon Chaput
Euro 77 -
The house of the seven women
by Tito Mouraz
sold out -
Everglades (last copy)
by Jungjin Lee
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by Agustín Zuluaga
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by Yann Gross
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Valparaíso
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drawn by the light
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Euro 34.90 -
Inside Life (book + print)
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by John Divola
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Euro 39 -
STIGMA (signed)
by Antoine d'Agata
Euro 350
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