PAK, Richard - Pursuit

Background information

"A collection of photographs taken 2003-09 over much of the United States. As the result of a long-term project created over a six year period, the photo volume 'Pursuit' by French photographer Richard PAK is the disenchanted chronicle of an idealized America. Being a 'keen admirer of American literature, cinema and painting', he created his own fancied-America, a not-so-imaginary place filled with fictional heroes. The book's title 'Pursuit' echoes the United States Declaration of Independence stating every American’s right to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. This work is a visual journal of a chimerical quest: happiness, granted as a constitutional right.

Content

The purpose of the photo volume 'Pursuit' by Richard PAK is to juxtapose a mental construction to the reality of the American everyday life and to picture the 'American experience' as a metaphor for a bigger experience. In his color photographs Ihe means to suggest rather than describe, translate life’s small dramas into something timeless and universal." (© Journal, 2012)

About French photographer Richard PAK (b.1972)

Photo books by Richard PAK