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Background information
"Through working with veterans over a five year period, Matthew L. CASTEEL became aware of the subtle indicators of past traumatic experience. He also recognized that the condition in which we live can often be a signifier of our wellbeing, and that even the state of car interiors can be seen as a manifestation of human interiors. The series 'American Interiors' by M L CASTEEL explores the area between 'the circumstantial and the evident' and it is in the space that separates the slickly produced military recruitment ads from the statistics about rates of veteran homelessness and suicide that this work resides.Content
The photo volume 'American Interiors' depicts the psychological repercussions of war and military service through images of the interiors of cars owned by USA veterans. Matthew CASTEEL balances the empathy he feels for those who have survived the military experience, with a deep sense of outrage towards America’s industrial military complex and the institutionalized violence of warfare." (slightly adapted text, © Dewi Lewis, 2018)
About the U.S. American photographer, Matthew L. CASTEEL
Photo books by Matthew L. CASTEEL
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Jörg Colberg
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 19 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 56 color ills., text language: English