{"product_id":"zzyzx","title":"ZZYZX","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"app\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_17CwS _2jISd _2RJxG\" data-polaris-layer=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_3L-Us\" id=\"AppFrameTopBar\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1g5YX\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_2t3YP\" data-polaris-top-bar=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_2RlBO\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e[…] 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Chris Killip\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\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\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Robert Adams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe early settlers dubbed California\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Golden State\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Land of Milk and Honey\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\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\u003eGregory Halpern was born in 1977 in Buffalo, New York. He has published a number of books, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2011),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOmaha Sketchbook\u003c\/em\u003e(2009) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEast of the Sun, West of the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2014), a collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato. He also edited, along with Jason Fulford,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Photographer’s Playbook: Over 250 Assignments and Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of Photobook of the Year at the 2016 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e128 pages\u003cbr\u003e77 colour plates\u003cbr\u003e24 cm x 29 cm\u003cbr\u003eSilkscreen printed hardcover\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition, Third printing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication date: April 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 9781910164655\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gregory Halpern","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54408147697992,"sku":"gsq1793014197741","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0968\/8904\/5320\/files\/zzyzx_1.jpg?v=1793014206","url":"https:\/\/www.canvasgrove.shop\/products\/zzyzx","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}