Though he has taken some of the most iconic images of the last half century
and the immense losses of a disastrous war
where he was taught by none other than Hans Fisler
The work resonates with Halpern’s characteristic attention to the ways the details of a landscape and the people who inhabit it often reveal the undercurrents of local histories and experiences
This revised and updated second edition revisits the project and includes 40 previously unpublished photographs
Omaha Sketchbook Edition:Unsigned Though he has taken someIn this new edition of Omaha Sketchbook, Gregory Halpern returns to his lyrical yet equivocal account of the American heartland. Compiled over fifteen years of photographing Omaha, Nebraska, the book forms a prescient meditation on America, the men and boys who inhabit it, and the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power. In loosely collaged spreads that reproduce his construction paper sketchbooks, Halpern takes pleasure in dissonance and