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Jerry Spagnoli: Local Stories
ISBN: 9783958297593
(HB - EN)
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In Local Stories, Jerry Spagnoli contests the notion of history as a narrative told to support particular agendas, and installs personal experience in its placeùthe myriad stories we as individuals create on a daily basis. History is no longer a chronicle of ôfactsö written y those in power, but a collaborative social fabric shaped by our memories and ever growing. ôIt is beyond the power of any medium to communicate that vast ocean of experience, but perhaps it is possible to point in that direction,ö explains Spagnoli, ôThese images are my attempt.ö His photos encompass the city, suburbia, the countryside and all between throughout the worldùfrom the neon noise of Times Square to a peaceful cafe on the +le Saint-Louis, from a street parade to friends picnicking under cherry blossoms, from the Forbidden City to surfers bobbing patiently on their boards, waiting for the next wave. ôThis fundamental sensation of moving through time is what unites us all as humans and presiding over it all, there before
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