JAMES CARROLL
THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Published by Kehrer, 2024
Book size 24 x 22cm
192 pages
Hardcover
Language English
Captured over the course of more than forty years on streets across the USA, James Carroll's photographs present a unique collection of historic Americana. Driven by a need to preserve memory—of his own experiences and those of others—and what curator and contributing writer Sean Corcoran describes as "his yearning to see, know, and understand," Carroll explores the impermanence of human lives and relationships . The images take us back and forth from a documentary approach to a more subjective realm, in which the author imagines new scenarios in chance encounters, while still commenting on the American scene. The majority of the black-and-white photographs in The Lives of Others were made with a Leica M3. Most of the images are published here for the first time.
Text by the publisher
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Captured over more than forty years on the streets of the United States, James Carroll’s photographs constitute a unique collection of American historical objects. Driven by a need to preserve memory—of his own experiences and those of others—and by what curator and contributing author Sean Corcoran describes as “his burning desire to see, to know, and to understand,” Carroll explores the impermanence of human lives and relationships. The images move us from a documentary approach to a more subjective realm, in which the author imagines new scenarios through chance encounters, while continuing to comment on the American scene. The majority of the black-and-white photographs in The Lives of Others were taken with a Leica M3. Many of the images are published here for the first time.
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