American geography, a reckoning with a dream, Matt Black
Type
Label
American geography, a reckoning with a dream, Matt Black
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
American geography
Nature of contents
catalogs
Oclc number
1263804257
Responsibility statement
Matt Black
Sub title
a reckoning with a dream
Summary
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.'
Table Of Contents
South and West -- South and East -- North and East -- North and West
Classification
Creator
Subject
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century -- Pictorial works
- United States -- History -- 21st century -- Pictorial works
- United States -- Rural conditions -- 21st century -- Pictorial works
- Black, Matt
- Photography, Artistic
- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Pictorial works
- Poor -- United States -- Portraits
- Documentary photography
- Poverty -- United States -- Pictorial works
Content
Author
Is Part Of
Photographer
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification2
- Creator1
- Subject9
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century -- Pictorial works
- United States -- History -- 21st century -- Pictorial works
- United States -- Rural conditions -- 21st century -- Pictorial works
- Black, Matt
- Photography, Artistic
- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Pictorial works
- Poor -- United States -- Portraits
- Documentary photography
- Poverty -- United States -- Pictorial works
- Content2
- Author1
- Is Part Of1
- Photographer1
- Mapped to1