Product Details
Hardback
128 pages
Chris Boot
Published 2004
Review
Shambroom gives us a glimpse of the largely unseen machinery that quietly but persistently determines the way we live. In Shambroom's pictures, the simple, actual event is revealed as a marvellous and beautiful enactment of the highest democratic ideals of equality, dialogue and representation. They are pictures not just of rituals, but of the real-life practice of self and community empowerment. Diane Mullin in ArtReview (October 2003)
Product Description:
Between 1999 and 2003, Paul Shambroom attended hundreds of town council meetings across the United States. Photographing the participants with a large format panoramic camera, his tableaux describe the humble practice of local government on an epic scale _ echoing traditional portraits of the powerful, from European court to American history paintings, and the many representations of the _Last Supper_. They are also explorations of small town America, inspired by the road trips of Walker Evans and Robert Frank. With the full minutes of each meeting included, this is a revealing documentary record of the practice of local democracy at the beginning of the 21st Century, and the strongest work yet of an important photographic artist. |
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