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Between Gravity and What Cheer: Iowa Photographs
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Between Gravity and What Cheer: Iowa Photographs
Current price: $29.95
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Between Gravity and What Cheer: Iowa Photographs
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Inspired by such seminal work as Robert Frank’s
, this is a unique vision of the Midwest and Iowa. Without condescending or overemphasizing the decline of small town America, Phipps documents rural communities as they are now, noting abstract shapes and colors as he photographs business districts with quirky and/or artful signs, streetscapes and landscapes, buildings with ghosts of paint from previous lives, and the occasional resident.
In addition to their startling attention to color and geometry, Phipps’s photos delight because they suggest an author who isn’t on intimate terms with his subject matter, but very much wants to be. Though the photographs in this collection frequently maintain a cautious distance from the houses, water towers, and iconography he captures on film, the pictures feel, at once, eager and shy.
Phipps admires his new homefrom afar, by varying degreesand excitedly introduces himself to it: the first steps of a journey toward claiming Iowa as his.