题 目：King、Queen、Knave / 国王、王后、侍童

作 者：Gregory Halpern

出 版：Mack ，2024

装 帧：精装，112页

尺 寸：24*29 cm

二十多年来，格雷戈里·哈尔珀一直在他的家乡纽约州布法罗及其周边地区进行摄影创作，精心构思了一系列照片，最终汇成了他的最新摄影专著。《国王、王后、小丑》以独特的视角展现了一座充满矛盾的城市，它打破了后工业衰退的陈词滥调，接纳了一种近乎超现实的神秘现实。哈尔珀这组令人着迷的照片如同一座舞台，各路独特而不可预测的角色在孤零零的建筑、雪堆和日常超凡脱俗的阳光漂白场景中轮番登场。

这些照片常常将主体置于特定的季节背景之中，在历史性的项目与瞬间独特的魅力之间取得了平衡。哈尔珀围绕着逆转与升华的主题，直面他出生地的复杂性，也直面整个当代美国的复杂性，他看到了美与丑交织，救赎与绝望并存。这部充满诗意的新作见证了一个既熟悉又陌生的地方那无尽的复杂性。

Over two decades, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, meticulously crafting the series of photographs that forms his latest monograph. King, Queen, Knave is an idiosyncratic vision of a city amidst its contradictions, defying familiar narratives of post-industrial decline and embracing an enigmatic strain of reality verging on surrealism. Halpern’s mesmerising sequence unfurls as a stage across which distinct and unpredictable characters appear in and amongst solitary buildings, snowdrifts, and sun-bleached scenes of everyday transcendence.

The images often locate their subjects within the specificities of the season and balance a historical project with the immediacy of a moment in its individual radiance. Embracing themes of reversal and ascension, Halpern confronts the complexities of his birthplace and of contemporary America at large, seeing beauty intertwined with ugliness and redemption with despair. This lyrical new work is testament to the endless complexity of a place at once familiar and unknown.