Title: Disquiet
Photographer(s): Amani Willet
Writer(s): Marvin Heiferman
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Publisher(s): Damiani editore, Bologna, Italy
Year: 2013
Print run:
Language(s): English
Pages: 168
Size: 19 x 26 cm
Binding: Hardcover, Printed cloth over board
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Print: Grafiche Damiani, Bologna,Italy
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: U.S.A., 2010-2012
ISBN: 9788862082747
‘Disquiet’ is a meditation on making a family in America at a time of social tensions and uncertainty. A metaphorical journey through the first two years of the photographer's son's life, ‘Disquiet’ weaves intimate family photographs with images of American society and the economic and political instability that defined its identity in the years between 2010 and 2012. Using a comprehensive visual approach, including environmental photographs, landscapes, still lifes and sociological documents, ‘Disquiet’ creates a layered story of beauty, tenderness and unease. The outcome is a new and distinctive approach to storytelling, in which themes of family, life, death and external forces are seen in the foreground, only to recede and begin the cycle anew. The book takes the viewer on an uninterrupted journey from public to private spaces, as well as from the concrete to the metaphorical. Through a complex mixture of images and a thoughtful design, with regularly paced sequences, ‘Disquiet’ proceeds beyond the simple visual record, acutely reconstructing the zeitgeist it represents. The book is an extraordinary visual interpretation of one individual's experience that will certainly touch the chords of the experiences of many.’
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