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Paul Graham: American Night | 
 enlarge | Creator: Paul Graham
Publisher: SteidlMack
Category: Book
Buy New: $244.96
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 897801
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 15.3 x 11.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 388243919X
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783882439199
ASIN: 388243919X
Publication Date: December 2003
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Product Description
Paul Graham's photographs touch upon the social fracture of America--the great divide between the included and excluded, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots. Taking on a simple topic, of late dealt with only through clich photojournalism, American Night embraces neglected territory in a series of shocking images that sit on the fence between art and document. Graham's images blind and overwhelm the viewer with a feeling akin to stepping out of a sheltered place and into the sunlight. Drained of color, shadow and form, they resonate with the lives of those they portray...and then the sequence snaps, either to a vibrant full-color image of a freshly minted dream house, complete with a blue sky and green grass of unattainable perfection, or to an intensely dark street portrait...before returning to the endless blinding whiteness of everyday life. Beyond their paucity or wealth of color these images contrast one another in their content: These perfect homes are unobtainable to those walking in the burnt landscape; they are a mirage, a dream or promise that can almost never be reached. Here is the chasm between promise and actuality, hope and reality, dream and truth. Shot between 1998 and 2002 in locations across America, including Los Angeles, Memphis, Detroit, New York City and Atlanta.
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 radical moby dick journey across america... October 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
great book. not one for the faint hearted though. challenging use of over-exposure to make hard to perceive white images that question what we allow ourselves to see, as a way of jarring us into looking afresh at the social fracture of America.
The middle sequence (that someone reviewing here likes above everything else) I suspect is kind of put in there to show the easy option, a clever 'is this what you expect?' - for the classic taste. it's Hamlet's mousetrap for the unsophisticated reader.
Genius editing flipping between the three types of imagery - white, dark and full color. Radical and hardcore work, but not for those who like their photography books to reinforce what good taste they have in photography....
 Not Grahams best January 9, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Graham has a great idea behind how the photographs are presented but in the end the statement comes out a little flat and simplistic...and this is if you have the stamina to wade through what seems like a bloated edit. The middle photographs are beautiful however and really quite nice on their own as weird street photographs.
RE: Paul Graham - American Night August 23, 2004
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Sophisticated and challenging work; exquisitely put together, and very well worth the effort.
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