{"product_id":"zzyzx-gregory-halpern-first-edition-fourth-printing","title":"ZZYZX - Gregory Halpern (First edition, fourth printing)","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year Award, 2016\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cstrong\u003eTraditional 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 endeavouring to strike out afresh, rethinking his conditioning and antecedents to break free of this particular mould\u003c\/strong\u003e.’ Chris Killip\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cstrong\u003eBeauty 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e’ Robert Adams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe early settlers dubbed California\u003cspan\u003e ‘\u003c\/span\u003eThe Golden State’ and\u003cspan\u003e ‘\u003c\/span\u003eThe 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 visualised, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, Fourth printing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSilkscreen printed hardback\u2028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24 x 29 cm, \u003c\/span\u003e128 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eABOUT THE SIGNED EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe signed edition includes an extra image plate signed by the artist and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eglued into\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e the inside back cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACKBOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42923780669664,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0345\/2121\/9205\/products\/cover50_860x_8648ea3e-2a8c-4ca3-946a-1f1a8efdd790.jpg?v=1654160656","url":"https:\/\/todomodo.live\/en\/products\/zzyzx-gregory-halpern-first-edition-fourth-printing","provider":"Todo Modo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}