My America /
After living abroad for more than seventeen years, photographer Diana Matar returned to the United States to photograph her home country. In the US, each year more than 1,000 people are killed by officers of the law. Each photograph in this body of work marks the official address where the killings...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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2024.
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| Summary: | After living abroad for more than seventeen years, photographer Diana Matar returned to the United States to photograph her home country. In the US, each year more than 1,000 people are killed by officers of the law. Each photograph in this body of work marks the official address where the killings took place. "In the US, approximately 1000 people continue to die each year in encounters with police. More than any other industrialised nation. My America is an archive of and memorial to victims of these encounters. The photographs, taken at locations where citizens were shot or tasered by law enforcement officers, create a quiet but chilling critique of the contemporary United States. The scale of the book attests to the scale of the problem yet Matar asks us to remember these are individuals." -- |
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| Item Description: | Catalog of an exhibition held at Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium, January 25-May 10, 2020, extended until September 20, 2020, due to COVID-19. "MMCCXXXIX"--Page before title page. |
| Physical Description: | 303 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-303). |
| ISBN: | 9781910401439 1910401439 |