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Pursuit (last copy)

by Richard Pak

Photographs: Richard Pak

Publisher: Journal

137 pages

Pictures: 66 colour illustrations

Year: 2012

ISBN: 9789198040531

Price: 39.90 €

Comments: first English edition; English; 16,5 x 22,5 cm; Hardcover

A project created over a six year period, Pursuit is the disenchanted chronicle of an idealized America. Being a keen admirer of American literature, cinema and painting, I created my own fancied-America, a not-so-imaginary place filled with fictional heroes. The purpose of this work is to juxtapose a mental construction to the reality of the American everyday life and to picture the “American experience” as a metaphor for a bigger experience. In my photographs I mean to suggest rather than describe, translate life’s small dramas into something timeless and universal.

The title Pursuit echoes the United States Declaration of Independence stating every American’s right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. This work is a visual journal of a chimerical quest: happiness, granted as a constitutional right.

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Pursuit (last copy)

by Richard Pak

Photographs: Richard Pak

Publisher: Journal

137 pages

Pictures: 66 colour illustrations

Year: 2012

ISBN: 9789198040531

Price: 39.90 €

Comments: first English edition; English; 16,5 x 22,5 cm; Hardcover

A project created over a six year period, Pursuit is the disenchanted chronicle of an idealized America. Being a keen admirer of American literature, cinema and painting, I created my own fancied-America, a not-so-imaginary place filled with fictional heroes. The purpose of this work is to juxtapose a mental construction to the reality of the American everyday life and to picture the “American experience” as a metaphor for a bigger experience. In my photographs I mean to suggest rather than describe, translate life’s small dramas into something timeless and universal.

The title Pursuit echoes the United States Declaration of Independence stating every American’s right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. This work is a visual journal of a chimerical quest: happiness, granted as a constitutional right.

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