Details

Subject(s)

• Van Agtmael, Peter [Browse]
• Iraq War, 2003-2011—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Afghan War, 2001-2021—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Documentary photography—United States—History—21st century [Browse]
• United States—Social life and customs—21st century [Browse]
• United States—Pictorial works [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Photobooks [Browse]
• Illustrated works [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• photobooks [Browse]

Summary note

"A searingly honest portrait of post-9/11 America by Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael. Broadly chronological, images from the front line of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are interspersed with conflicts at home, from protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline to the storming of the Capitol, and layered with van Agtmael's personal reflections, critique, and interviews with those he has encountered along the way. Exploring race, class, nationalism, the mythology of war, and America's self-image, Look at the U.S.A. is by turns damning, surreal, moving, confronting, ironic--and always attuned to the human cost"--Back cover.

Notes

Includes index.

Other title(s)

• Look at the United States of America
• Diary of war and home

ISBN

• 9780500027028
• 0500027021

LCCN

2023952401

OCLC

1391678080

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