Postcards from America
Subtitle: 4 : Florida : October -November 2012 : swap shop
By: photographs and texts by Bruce Gilden [and others]
Publisher: Magnet
Published: 2013
Place of publication: United States?
Language: eng
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Elections; History; Pictorial works; Social life and customs; Presidents; Manners and customs; Election
Other titles: Swap shop
Description: "During the eight weeks surrounding the 2012 election, eleven photographers gathered in Florida, twelve years after the disputed vote that arguably changed the course of the 21st century. Although the photographers worked independently, they moved towards some common themes: The stunning number of disenfranchised voters in Florida, the complicated processes through which realms of inclusion and exclusion are defined there, the difficulty of initially discerning deep political and philosophical divides among neighbors. Looking back at their work as a group, the photographers came to see both Florida and the American political process as a kind of swap shop: Places where ideas and identities are traded in, recycled, and acquired secondhand; open-air markets for consumption, garbage and reuse. This publication is the result."--Publisher's website (viewed on August 17, 2016).
Notes: "Since 2011, a loose group of Magnum photographers has periodically gathered in locations across America to experiment with the notion of working collaboratively. Photography is often seen as a solitary pursuit, but the aim of the Postcards from America project is for the photographers to try to play like a band, in search of a kind of polyphonic visual sound."

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