Julie Ault ; Dian Hanson ; Eleanor Heartney — Andres Serrano : America and Other Work
, , 2004 Hardcover, 368 pages, ENG / FR / GER, 375 x 290 x 40 mm, illustrated dustjacket, book is in very good condition, Full page coloured photographs, Large and Heavy ex. ISBN 9783822835043. A monumental series of over a hundred color-photographic portraits of Americans. Shot against luminous painted backdrops devoid of any other imagery, each figure is presented alone and calmly posed (except for the corpses). Each image clings to the surface value of the photograph, yet alludes to the subject beneath. This is a work whose sentiment towards its subject matter occurred post-9.11: it opens with the image of a fresh-faced boy scout and closes with the image of "Blood on the Flag." The vast circuitry of lives between these bookends' divides the book into several series, after "America": A History of Sex, The Morgue, Nomads, The Church, Budapest, Bodily Fluids & more. W/Interview.
