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Gregory Halpern. The real and the sublime

Colour, social tension and everyday strangeness shape an American landscape that keeps its contradictions open.

Gregory Halpern · Buffalo, New York, USA · 2015. Contemporary art, photography or visual culture featured by Acquistare Arte.
Gregory Halpern · Buffalo, New York, USA · 2015© Gregory Halpern / Magnum Photos

Organising chaos

Halpern holds beauty and harshness together rather than resolving one into the other. Place, portrait and detail build open narratives.

Buffalo

A berry tree above a metal fence keeps growth and restriction in the same frame. The photograph lets the contradiction remain visible.

Sources & links

  1. Gregory Halpern · profilo Magnum ↗
  2. Gregory Halpern · Buffalo, New York ↗
First published by Acquistare Arte ↗

© Gregory Halpern / Magnum Photos