James Carroll - The Lives of Others

James Carroll
The Lives of Others

Published by Kehrer, 2024
Size: 24 x 22cm
192 Pages
Hardcover
Languages: English

Captured over more than forty years on the streets of the United States, James Carroll's photographs constitute a unique collection of American historical objects. Driven by the need to preserve memory—of his own experiences and those of others—and by what curator and contributing author Sean Corcoran describes as “his burning desire to see, to know, and to understand,” Carroll explores the impermanence of human lives and relationships. The images move us from a documentary approach to a more subjective realm, in which the author imagines new scenarios through chance encounters, while continuing to comment on the American scene. The majority of the black-and-white photographs in The Lives of Others were taken with a Leica M3. Most of the images are published here for the first time.

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