...this election is perfectly captured in black and white by
photographer Mark Peterson, stripping the last two years down to
its bare bones, showing the warts and weirdness of democracy gone
awry.--Aline Smithson "Lenscratch"
[Political theater] presents our nationwide absurdist freak-out as
a stark melodrama...The ultrasharp, super-high-contrast,
black-and-white images look at once like Weegee photographs,
Twilight Zone stills, the grunge-scene snaps of Charles Peterson,
and Robert Longo's charcoal drawings.-- "Bookforum"
Everyone will find this book fascinating and interesting. With
these photographs, [Mark Peterson] truly shows that the campaigns
are really just theatre, that the candidates are just performing in
front of an audience. Everyone is part of this theatre, even the
audience. For people who love politics, this is the type of book
for you. It is extremely fascinating; since these images are not
stage-managed like they are on CNN, the photos give a look at how
odd our system of electing a leader is.-- "Seattle Book Review"
Instead of capturing standard color photojournalism images, he
started taking his photos in black and white, playing with flash
and harsh light and emphasizing certain things about the images "to
accent how staged most of these events are." He emphasized that
while he manipulates angles and flash, everything in the photos is
real.--Elizabeth Flock "PBS NewsHour"
Mark Peterson starkly captures the conscience of the American
political drama.--Michelle Molloy "Time, Best Photobooks of
2016"
Peterson pulls back the curtain on such performances to show these
politicians as they really are.-- "L'Oeil de la Photographie"
Peterson's cinematic, close-up portraits of U.S. presidential
candidates and their supporters are among the most dramatic images
taken along this year's campaign trail, finding their way to covers
of TIME magazine and NY Mag, among others. Highly contrasted and
garishly lit, his black-and-white images chronicled the insanity of
the protests and rallies leading up to the election--and remain a
powerful record in its wake.--Demie Kim "Artsy"
Through Peterson's cinematic lens, politicians morph into
vaudevillian performers, their constituents raving fans. The images
deliberately break from the impartial and deferential style of
photojournalists, opting instead to highlight intensity, absurdity
and artifice wherever they appear.--Priscilla Frank "The Huffington
Post"
Under his handheld flash, he shows candidates as human beings with
their flaws and imperfections amplified by his careful lighting and
framing.--Paul Moakley "Time Magazine"
What Peterson did was to get into the thick of something appalling
and create something appealing -- a remarkable book perfectly in
tune for a remarkable year in politics.-- "American
Illustration/American Photography"
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