SLANT
If you opened the local newspaper in the small New England town of Amherst, Massachusetts, as Aaron Schuman did one day, you might find a section entitled "Police Reports" - succinct and extraordinarily anticlimactic accounts of crimes, suspicious activities, events and non-events reported...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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MACK
2019
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | If you opened the local newspaper in the small New England town of Amherst, Massachusetts, as Aaron Schuman did one day, you might find a section entitled "Police Reports" - succinct and extraordinarily anticlimactic accounts of crimes, suspicious activities, events and non-events reported in the area during the previous week. In 'SLANT', Schuman interweaves a selection of these clippings published between 2014-2018, with quietly wry photographs he made within a thirty-mile radius of Amherst from 2016-18, in response to their unintentionally deadpan descriptions. What began as a genuinely affectionate, tongue-in-cheek take on the small towns where Schuman spent his childhood steadily came to reflect the disquieting rise of "fake news", "alternative facts", "post-truth" politics and paranoia in America following the 2016 election. Schuman's subtly offbeat combination of images and words, however, was always inclined to create a foreboding sense of unease. In 'SLANT', the relationship that has been constructed between photography and text takes its inspiration from a poetic scheme called "slant rhyme", notably espoused by the 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson, who also happened to live and write in Amherst. In such a rhyming scheme, there is a close but not exact correspondence of sounds, often using assonance or consonance; generally it is used in poetry to give variations and an inharmonious feeling. Appropriating this literary device, 'SLANT' serves as a wider reflection upon something strange, surreal, dissonant and increasingly sinister stirring beneath the surface of the contemporary American landscape, experience, and psyche |
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| Beschreibung: | All police reports found in the Amherst Bulletin between 2014-2018. All photographs made between 2016-2018, in and near Amherst, Massachusetts |
| Beschreibung: | 90 ungezählte Seiten 27 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781912339389 978-1-912339-38-9 1912339382 |