drawing on photographs that are now recognized as some of the most important visual records of British life made during this period
who kept the townspeople in line
capturing families that had embarked on the dangerous journey to the United States
He used the Mediterranean light to transform mundane objects into surreal compositions
Fine Print: Starlings. Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 2005-2018 Andy Warhol drawing on photographs that areOver the course of 15 years, Gregory Halpern photographed Omaha, Nebraska, steadily compiling a lyrical, if equivocal, response to the American Heartland. Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies, playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place. Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power.