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"A searingly honest portrait of post-9/11 America by Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael. Broadly chronological, images from the front line of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are interspersed with conflicts at home, from protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline to the storming of the Capitol, and layered with van Agtmael's personal reflections, critique, and interviews with those he has encountered along the way. Exploring race, class, nationalism, the mythology of war, and America's self-image, Look at the U.S.A. is by turns damning, surreal, moving, confronting, ironic--and always attuned to the human cost"--Back cover.…mehr

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"A searingly honest portrait of post-9/11 America by Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael. Broadly chronological, images from the front line of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are interspersed with conflicts at home, from protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline to the storming of the Capitol, and layered with van Agtmael's personal reflections, critique, and interviews with those he has encountered along the way. Exploring race, class, nationalism, the mythology of war, and America's self-image, Look at the U.S.A. is by turns damning, surreal, moving, confronting, ironic--and always attuned to the human cost"--Back cover.
Autorenporträt
Peter van Agtmael is an American photographer based in Paris, and has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 2013. His previous books include Disco Night Sept 11 and Sorry for the War. Van Agtmael is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant, the ICP Infinity Award for Young Photographer, the LUMIX FREELENS Award, the Aaron Siskind Grant and several World Press Photo Awards. He has been a mentor in the Arab Documentary Photography Program in Beirut since 2014.