ZZYZX by Gregory Halpern

A collection of works by Gregory Halpern, an American photographer who is a candidate of the international photographer group "Magnum Photos" and who received a Guggenheim scholarship in 2014.

Early American settlers called California a land of gold and fertility. In modern times, it is not easy to describe the land concisely, although it includes obvious ridicule such as sprawling townscapes, complicated roads, and slums. There are completely different elements such as majestic beauty, psychedelia, and self-destruction coexisting, but a kind of mysterious harmony is created. Every land is full of contradictions and unpredictability, but California tends to be more extreme. Culture and history, beauty and ugliness, redemption and despair coexist, and the spotlight is transcendent and heartless. It ends with a view of the Pacific Ocean facing the A journey west not only hints at a thirst for the sea, but also the history of large-scale settlements all the way to the Pacific, which early settlers in the eastern United States saw as a self-evident destiny, in other words, the development of America. traces the history of The land, people, and creatures captured in the photographs in this work already existed before they became the subject of the artist, but by composing and editing a series of photographs like fiction or fantasy, they have become distorted. It is projected as a scene of California's daily life, which can not stand the swelling population and is on the verge of collapse, continuing indifferently.

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Title: ZZYZX
Artist: Gregory Halpern
MACK, 2016
Hardcover, 240 x 290 mm
128 pages
First edition, third printing
¥6,750 + tax