Over two decades, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, crafting the series of photographs that forms his latest monograph, King, Queen, Knave. Join Halpern for a conversation about his new book, and the way in which it confronts both the complexities of his birthplace and contemporary America at large.
Thursday 7 November
19:00
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
79 Rue des Archives
75003 Paris
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About King, Queen, Knave
King, Queen, Knave is an idiosyncratic vision of a city amidst its contradictions, defying familiar narratives of post-industrial decline and embracing an enigmatic strain of reality verging on surrealism. Halpern’s mesmerising sequence unfurls as a stage across which distinct and unpredictable characters appear in and amongst solitary buildings, snowdrifts, and sun-bleached scenes of everyday transcendence. The images often locate their subjects within the specificities of the season and balance a historical project with the immediacy of a moment in its individual radiance. Embracing themes of reversal and ascension, Halpern confronts the complexities of his birthplace and of contemporary America at large, seeing beauty intertwined with ugliness and redemption with despair. This lyrical new work is testament to the endless complexity of a place at once familiar and unknown.
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