The Story
Over the course of 15 years, Gregory Halpern photographed Omaha, Nebraska, steadily compiling a lyrical, if equivocal, response to the American Heartland. Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies, playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place. Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power.
Description
Over the course of 15 years, Gregory Halpern photographed Omaha, Nebraska, steadily compiling a lyrical, if equivocal, response to the American Heartland. Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies, playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place. Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power.
