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"Nina BERMAN, as an American photographer looking at America, delivers a caustic and surreal vision of the US during the Bush years in her new book 'Homeland'.
A product of seven years work, with images from across America, BERMAN gives us a peek into the bizarre manifestations of the homeland security state and the ideologies that have reshaped post 9/11 America. (...)
In 'Homeland', happy families step through suburbs clutching anti-nuke pills. Small town police train to hunt Al-Qaeda. Recruitment spectacles transform children into would be killers. Military goats perform in war on terror scripts. And beneath it all stands the image of a warrior Jesus inspiring megachurch millions toward the end times.
Looking at the pictures shot in a rich saturated technicolor, one asks, are the scenes real, or an elaborate state sponsored performance art designed to amuse a public desperately seeking a superhero ending in an age of empire decline?
With an afterword by Michael Shaw, visual critic and creator of Bagnewsnotes.com." (publisher's note)
BERMAN, an internationally acclaimed photographer best known for her ground breaking images of American military wounded in the Iraq war, 'Purple Hearts', (Trolley, 2004) once again pushes us to look at American power and myth as it plays out in the heartland.
Exhibition:
The exhibition of 'Homeland' was shown at the 2008 Visa pour l'Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, and at Jen Bekman, New York. More recently Homeland was exhibited at Side Gallery, Newcastle, from 4 July - 22 August 2009.
A product of seven years work, with images from across America, BERMAN gives us a peek into the bizarre manifestations of the homeland security state and the ideologies that have reshaped post 9/11 America. (...)
In 'Homeland', happy families step through suburbs clutching anti-nuke pills. Small town police train to hunt Al-Qaeda. Recruitment spectacles transform children into would be killers. Military goats perform in war on terror scripts. And beneath it all stands the image of a warrior Jesus inspiring megachurch millions toward the end times.
Looking at the pictures shot in a rich saturated technicolor, one asks, are the scenes real, or an elaborate state sponsored performance art designed to amuse a public desperately seeking a superhero ending in an age of empire decline?
With an afterword by Michael Shaw, visual critic and creator of Bagnewsnotes.com." (publisher's note)
BERMAN, an internationally acclaimed photographer best known for her ground breaking images of American military wounded in the Iraq war, 'Purple Hearts', (Trolley, 2004) once again pushes us to look at American power and myth as it plays out in the heartland.
Exhibition:
The exhibition of 'Homeland' was shown at the 2008 Visa pour l'Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, and at Jen Bekman, New York. More recently Homeland was exhibited at Side Gallery, Newcastle, from 4 July - 22 August 2009.
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 2 cm., 196 pp., 90 color ills.,
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