Omaha Sketchbook [Signed]

First edition
Paperback with linen spine
144 pages, 29 x 23 cm
Published by MACK September 2019

Signed copy

For the last fifteen years, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in Omaha, Nebraska, steadily compiling a lyrical, if equivocal, response to the American Heartland. In loosely-collaged spreads that reproduce his construction-paper sketchbooks, Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies, playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place. Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power.

"Halpern is a photographer of place […] but he recognizes that place is a matter of personality: the little details, the minor moments, by which identity, collective or otherwise, is revealed." – The New Yorker

Gregory Halpern’s “most impactful images" – The Guardian

"As America turns towards the midwest to understand its own political climate, [Gregory Halpern's] work feels precisely relevant." – The Independent