Trent Parke: Minutes to Midnight

Description:

In 2003 Trent Parke began a road-trip around his native Australia, a monumental journey that was to last two years and cover a distance of over 90,000 km. This title is the ambitious photographic record of that adventure, in which Parke presents a proud but uneasy nation struggling to craft its identity from different cultures and traditions. This book merges traditional documentary techniques and imagination to create a dark visual narrative portraying Australia with a mix of nostalgia, romanticism and brooding realism. This is not a record of the physical landscape but of an emotional one. It is a story of human anxiety and intensity, which although told from Australia, represents a universal human condition in the world today. 00.

subjects: Artists, australia,  Documentary photography,  Australia, pictorial works,  Exhibitions,  Artistic Photography,  Pictorial works,  Social life and customs,  Photographie,  Schwarzweißphotographie,  Manners and customs,  Fotografie,  Schwarzweißfotografie