Title: Minutes to midnight /
Authors: Parke, Trent.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Parke, Trent Exhibitions.; Parke, Trent,; Parke, Trent,; Photography, Artistic; Fotografie; Schwarzweißfotografie; Manners and customs; Photography, Artistic; Australia Pictorial works.; Australia Social life and customs Pictorial works.; Australia
Abstract: In 2003 Trent Parke began a road-trip around his native Australia, a monumental journey that was to last two years and cover a distance of over 90,000 km. This title is the ambitious photographic record of that adventure, in which Parke presents a proud but uneasy nation struggling to craft its identity from different cultures and traditions. This book merges traditional documentary techniques and imagination to create a dark visual narrative portraying Australia with a mix of nostalgia, romanticism and brooding realism. This is not a record of the physical landscape but of an emotional one. It is a story of human anxiety and intensity, which although told from Australia, represents a universal human condition in the world today. 00.