书名：Omen: Phantasmagoria at the Farm Security Administration Archive 1935–1942 / 预兆：1935-1942年农场安全管理档案中的幻影
定价：368.0
ISBN：9788419233103
作者：Leon Munoz Santini
版次：1
出版时间：2024-06

内容提要：

书 名：Omen: Phantasmagoria at the Farm Security Administration Archive 1935–1942 / 预兆：1935-1942年农场安全管理档案中的幻影

作 者：Leon Munoz Santini

出 版：RM ，2024

装 帧：平装，160页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：23.6*33.7 cm

 

 

藏在反映大萧条时期美国的标志性摄影档案中的黑暗、超现实场景

 

《预兆》一书从纽约公共图书馆收藏的约40,000幅美国农业安全管理局摄影档案（1935-1942年）中精选作品进行重新审视和重构，这一标志性项目汇聚了罗素·李、多萝西娅·兰格、本·沙恩、沃克·埃文斯、卡尔·迈丹斯、亚瑟·罗斯坦、戈登·帕克斯和杰克·德拉诺等传奇摄影师的杰作。该项目的许多标志性图像在构建大萧条时期美国克服逆境、取得胜利的霸权叙事中发挥了重要作用。然而，当我们仔细审视一些鲜为人知照片的背景和次要人物时，一个更加动荡的故事浮出水面。

 

《预兆》由墨西哥艺术家莱昂·穆尼奥斯·桑蒂尼和豪尔赫·潘乔加联合编辑，为这一典型的美国研究提供了全新视角。书中的图像序列放大了诡异细节，以大幅、鲜明的黑白照片呈现，这些照片经过创意裁剪并拼接在一起，形成了阴险的关联。这些隐藏的故事预示着美国社会中系统性不公的有形和无形幽灵，其循环随着每一代人的更迭而不断重复。因此，《预兆》既是一面映照当今痛苦现实的镜子，也是一个反思历史与纪实摄影如何被阅读和理解的工具：将编辑视角推向其终极后果。该书还包括小说家兼诗人露西·艾夫斯的叙事文本。

 

Dark, surreal scenes hidden in an iconic photographic archive of Depression-era America

 

Drawing from approximately 40,000 works of the Farm Security Administration Photographic Archive (1935–42) housed at the New York Public Library, Omen reviews and reframes this landmark project of modern American documentary photography. The monumental project features works by storied photographers such as Russell Lee, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Gordon Parks and Jack Delano. Many of the more iconic images that arose from this initiative were instrumental in constructing a hegemonic narrative of triumph against adversity in Depression-era America. In scrutinizing the backgrounds and secondary characters of some lesser-known photographs, however, a more turbulent story emerges.

Omen is co-edited by Mexican artists León Mu?oz Santini and Jorge Panchoaga, providing a fresh perspective on this quintessentially American study. The image sequence amplifies the eerie details in enlarged, stark black-and-white images, creatively cropped and abutted together to form insidious connections. These hidden stories are premonitions of the visible and invisible specters of systemic injustice that characterize American society, their cycles renewing with each successive generation. Thus, Omen at once serves as a mirror for the anguished reality of today, and as a device for reflection on how historical and documentary photography is read and understood: taking the editorial gaze to its ultimate consequences. The book includes a narrative text by novelist and poet Lucy Ives.