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COURSE OF THE EMPIRE - KEN LIGHT GEBUNDEN

A decade ago  Ken Light traveled across the United States photographing the country  an empire
he realized was the most fragile of organisms. The photographs of the earlier years in this
book create the context for understanding how America lost its way. Light reached all four
corners of the country to document people across race  class and political lines. We see the
heartland and the coastal cities  Wall Street and rural small towns.As he continued  seismic
changes erupted across America and the country descended into an age of crisis. He photographed
protests and Washington politicians in Congress and the White House  climate change disasters
and environmental defenders  the rise of the regime of Donald Trump  the Trump rallies and
America's reactions to it all. He comprehensively probed the fractured social and economic
condition  going beyond the tropes of inequality we all recite by heart to create a visual
portrait of a country mired in calamity  its people deeply splintered  angry and in pain.The
resulting portrait of the American social landscape is a riveting historical and visual record
of a complicated country in a complicated time. It is compelling  and one of the earliest
photographic accounts of an age that historians and citizens will be scrutinizing for
generations to come.

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