King, Queen, Knave (signed)
by Gregory Halpern
Photographs: Gregory Halpern
Publisher: Mack Books
112 pages
Year: 2024
ISBN: 978-1-913620-74-5
Price: 77 €
Comments: The signed edition will be signed by the artist on press. Embossed linen hardcover with tipped in image. 24 x 29 cm
Over two decades, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, meticulously crafting the series of photographs that forms his latest monograph. King, Queen, Knave is an idiosyncratic vision of a city amidst its contradictions, defying familiar narratives of post-industrial decline and embracing an enigmatic strain of reality verging on surrealism. Halpern’s mesmerising sequence unfurls as a stage across which distinct and unpredictable characters appear in and amongst solitary buildings, snowdrifts, and sun-bleached scenes of everyday transcendence.
The images often locate their subjects within the specificities of the season and balance a historical project with the immediacy of a moment in its individual radiance. Embracing themes of reversal and ascension, Halpern confronts the complexities of his birthplace and of contemporary America at large, seeing beauty intertwined with ugliness and redemption with despair. This lyrical new work is testament to the endless complexity of a place at once familiar and unknown.
'Halpern’s practice emerges from careful, extended observation of the world and a sensitive engagement with the people he photographs. But the pictures and the relationships forged between them also approach the surreal, the dreamlike, the enigmatic. Through Halpern’s photography, the appearance of everyday reality becomes both volatile and marvelous.' Phil Taylor, Associate Curator at The George Eastman Museum
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King, Queen, Knave (signed)
by Gregory Halpern
Photographs: Gregory Halpern
Publisher: Mack Books
112 pages
Year: 2024
ISBN: 978-1-913620-74-5
Price: 77 €
Comments: The signed edition will be signed by the artist on press. Embossed linen hardcover with tipped in image. 24 x 29 cm
Over two decades, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, meticulously crafting the series of photographs that forms his latest monograph. King, Queen, Knave is an idiosyncratic vision of a city amidst its contradictions, defying familiar narratives of post-industrial decline and embracing an enigmatic strain of reality verging on surrealism. Halpern’s mesmerising sequence unfurls as a stage across which distinct and unpredictable characters appear in and amongst solitary buildings, snowdrifts, and sun-bleached scenes of everyday transcendence.
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King, Queen, Knave (signed)
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Year: 2024
ISBN: 978-1-913620-74-5
Price: 77 €
Comments: The signed edition will be signed by the artist on press. Embossed linen hardcover with tipped in image. 24 x 29 cm
Over two decades, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, meticulously crafting the series of photographs that forms his latest monograph. King, Queen, Knave is an idiosyncratic vision of a city amidst its contradictions, defying familiar narratives of post-industrial decline and embracing an enigmatic strain of reality verging on surrealism. Halpern’s mesmerising sequence unfurls as a stage across which distinct and unpredictable characters appear in and amongst solitary buildings, snowdrifts, and sun-bleached scenes of everyday transcendence.
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