{"product_id":"american-artifacts","title":"American Artifacts","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring his six-year journey across the United States creating the project that became \u003cem\u003eAmerican Geography\u003c\/em\u003e, Matt Black collected objects in the locations he visited. Each location is designated as an area of \"concentrated poverty\"--a US Census definition for places with poverty rates of 20% or higher. Over time, the objects he found and collected began to take on symbolic significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Black crisscrossed the United States, his collection grew into the thousands: plastic spoons and forks, lottery tickets, liquor bottles, lighters, and matchbooks. Some items were important, like job applications, medical paperwork, driver's licenses; some were lost personal effects, like family photographs, bracelets, eyeglasses, notes, and letters. And there was the detritus of labor: work gloves, broken tools and supplies, wire, bolts, padlocks, and bent nails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new monograph, presented as a companion volume to Black's seminal photobook, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Geography\u003c\/em\u003e, presents photographs of these objects, assemblages, and collages, as well as previously unpublished images from \u003cem\u003eAmerican Geography\u003c\/em\u003e, and the voices of those who are cut off from the \"American Dream.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese humble, discarded objects form a portrait of America assembled from its roadways and sidewalks, an archaeology of dispossession. For those who follow Black's photographic work and his unflinching critique of inequality in the United States, this book is an essential volume.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matt Black","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46348306284780,"sku":"9780500027752","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780500027752.jpg?v=1752264298","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/american-artifacts","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}