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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by Gregory Halpern
sold out -
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by Gregory Halpern
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by Gregory Halpern
Euro 165
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-
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by Mila Teshaieva
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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
-
ZZYZX (first edition - signed - last copy)
by Gregory Halpern
sold out -
Omaha Sketchbook
by Gregory Halpern
sold out -
King, Queen, Knave (signed - last copy)
by Gregory Halpern
Euro 165
more books tagged »landscape« | >> see all
-
Buzzing at the Sill
by Peter van Agtmael
sold out -
Land ohne Mitte (signiert)
by Anne Morgenstern
Euro 44 -
Nature & Politics
by Thomas Struth
sold out -
After Her
by Todd Hido, Amanda Schiff
sold out -
InselWesen (signed + print)
by Mila Teshaieva
Euro 104.50 -
Small Things in Silence
by Masao Yamamoto
sold out
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Sun City
by Peter Granser
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Song Book (third printing - signed)
by Alec Soth
Euro 55 -
One Picture Book 85 : The Audience (signed + print)
by Roger Ballen
sold out -
Two Rivers (last copy)
by Carolyn Drake
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Birdhouses (book+print)
by Rob McDonald
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A Sense of Common Ground
by Fazal Sheikh
Euro 69
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-
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by Ed Templeton
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Domesticated Land
by Susan Lipper
Euro 44 -
Black Power Black Panthers 1969
by Janine Wiedel
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by Jason Lee
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Friction
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Euro 99.70 -
On the Road Again 1969 & 1971
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autoportrait (signed - last copy)
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