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Ghetto
THIS IS A journey through 12 modern ghettos, starting in a refugee camp in Tanzania and ending in a forest in Patagonia. In each of these places, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, as editors of COLORS magazine, methodically documented their inhabitants, and asked them the same How did you get here? Who is in power? Where do you go to be alone? To make love? To get your teeth fixed? For many of those photographed it was their first time in front of a camera. Some looked into it with a hard, penetrating gaze. Others obeyed the ritual of photography with smiles. And Mario (pictured) turned his back on the camera and waited for the shutter to click.
500 pages, Hardcover
First published July 2, 2004
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December 20, 2023
Photography in a different lens
July 9, 2007
A massive (500 page, 3 1/2 pound) volume of photo essays, covering places in which groups of people are institutionalized or confined in some sense. The cover image, for example, is from a mental hospital in Cuba.
The authors have a great preview on their website--just go to http://www.choppedliver.info and click "Ghetto" near the top.
The authors have a great preview on their website--just go to http://www.choppedliver.info and click "Ghetto" near the top.
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