Moral Minority Palermo Gilden signedPublished June 2024 Pages 184 Cover Hardback, Dust Jacket Size 245mm x 298mm Sergio Purtell arrived in the USA in the early 1970s, having fled an imminent dictatorship in Chile, by General Augusto Pinochet. Here he glimpsed the American dream, and sought to unravel the nations mysteries as an outsider who had witnessed the capriciousness of power and the tenacity of the displaced. Made between 1977 and the early 90s Sergio Purtells American
riding an emotional circuit that sweeps from empathy to affection to outright elation
political polarization and algorithmic echo chambers
Design by Gonzalo Sanchez and Misha Kominek
texts and other (online and offline) found footage
One can glean the need for closeness within its streets and brick layered buildings and its historical echoes
designed by Brian Lamotte
In 2009 he received a fellowship to work as city photographer of Koblenz
The almost epochally indifferent images and of course books from the “Ceasefire” or “EIN-HEIT” have brought Michael Schmidt to the forefront of German photographers
can be translated as “the era of enlightened peace
happening in real time
rendering not only carefully considered landscapes
in his and her own way