Gregory Halpern: Let the Sun Beheaded Be

Gregory Halpern: Let the Sun Beheaded Be
Clement Cheroux, Gregory Halpern, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Copublished by Aperture and Fondation d'entreprise Hermes
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3 Sep 2020 US
9781597114905
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In Let the Sun Beheaded Be, photographer Gregory Halpern focuses on the French Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, a French overseas region with a complicated and violent colonial history. Renowned for his photographic meditations on place, Halpern presents a compelling portrait of Guadeloupe and its inhabits, focusing on local histories and experiences. A text by curator and editor Clement Cheroux grapples with the island' s history in relation to the French Revolution, Surrealism, and the Martinican poet Aime Cesaire, whose writing inspired the title of the book and many of the images inside; a conversation between Halpern and photographer and critic Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa considers Halpern' s process and personal history, as well as the politics of representation. Let the Sun Beheaded Be commingles life and death, nature and culture, and beauty and decay in enigmatic color images of the archipelago' s residents and lush landscape, as well as monuments related to the brutality of its past. Let the Sun Beheaded Be is the most recent commission by Fondation d' entreprise Hermes, working in alliance with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, for Immersion, a French-American Photography Commission. An exhibition of Halpern' s work, curated by Cheroux, will open at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, in September 2020; and at SFMOMA in spring 2021.
Gregory Halpern (born in Buffalo, New York, 1977) received a BA in history and literature from Harvard University, and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2014, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has published six books of his work: Harvard Works Because We Do (2003), A (2011), East of the Sun, West of the Moon (in collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato, 2014), ZZYZX (2016), Confederate Moons (2018), and Omaha Sketchbook (2019). He is coeditor of The Photographer' s Playbook (with Jason Fulford, Aperture, 2014) and teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. Clement Cheroux is senior curator in the department of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Previously, he served as chief curator of photography at the Musee National d' Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and former editor of the website The Great Leap Sideways. His publication One Wall a Web (2018) won the 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award.
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ISBN-13: 9781597114905
Published: 3 Sep 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Aperture
Publisher: Aperture
Format: Hardback
Weight: 760g
Pages: 112

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