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Declaring Independence ReviewAnother wonderful collection of sixty-eight American photos from David Graham. I have another of his photo books 'Only in America' (ISBN 0394582152) and 'Declaring Independence' is sort of a continuation of the theme: the everyday Americana landscape.
The photos are mostly exterior, allowing Graham to get on with capturing his great compositions without the restraints of interior space and light. Many of them include some lettering or signage helping to reveal how American's express themselves in the environment but don't expect to see any folk here, these are photos of places and things.
Of the sixty-eight photos there are a few, I think, that don't quite work, mainly those that don't have a natural framing of sky or lack any edge to the main focal point. Most of them though, just look super and if you are collector of commonplace photo books (I certainly am) you'll want to have this latest instalment of Mr Graham's American vision.
***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
Declaring Independence OverviewDeclaring Independence is the fourth in David Graham's trilogy of photographic books about the American cultural landscape. Unable to stop searching the country for the odd, unusual and colorful, Graham has continued on his quest to find out how Americans express themselves through their environments. The result of his latest journey is this book of photographs which delves further into the complex weave of image, symbol and reality that we see as America at its finest. From coast to coast, from dinosaurs to space ships, Graham has put together an engaging and joyous collection of photographs that show what it means to be an American.David Graham is a photographer who lives in two worlds. To pay the rent, he is a freelance photographer who shoots for magazines such as Time, Newsweek and the New York Times Magazine. He also makes photographs that come from his own private muse, yielding work that addresses the American cultural landscape. These photographs have been collected in five previous books, Alone Together (Pond Press 2002), Taking Liberties (Pond Press 2001), Land of the Free (Aperture 1999), Only in America (Knopf 1991) and American Beauty (Aperture 1987). These photographs are also to be found in major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is also an associate professor at the Univeristy of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.Peter Wilkinson (Introduction) is a writer with a wide following that results for his work as a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine since 1988.

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