TY  - BOOK
AU  - Black,Matt
TI  - American geography: a reckoning with a dream 
SN  - 9780500545355
AV  - TR655 .B54252 2021
U1  - 779.092 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson Ltd
KW  - Black, Matt.
KW  - Documentary photography
KW  - Photography, Artistic
KW  - Poverty
KW  - United States
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Poor
KW  - Portraits
KW  - Photographie documentaire
KW  - Photographie artistique
KW  - Pauvreté
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Ouvrages illustrés
KW  - documentary photography
KW  - aat
KW  - art photography
KW  - PHOTOGRAPHY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - fast
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Economic history
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Illustrated works
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Catalogs
N1  - "With 97 Illustrations."; South and West -- South and East -- North and East -- North and West
N2  - 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.'
ER  -