American Artifacts Ian Berry Prints With an introduction by Fred

With an introduction by Fred Ritchin and texts by Carole Naggar

As a photographer I felt compelled to share these personal

and the horizon stretches ahead

Traumatized by his years of war reporting

function as scattered clues to a tale that is never fully explained

American Artifacts Ian Berry Prints With an introduction by FredThe companion volume to Matt Black's critically acclaimed American Geography presents a deeper view of his six year odyssey documenting poverty in the United States. During his six year journey across the United States creating the project that became American Geography, Matt Black collected objects in the locations he visited. Each location is designated as an area of "concentrated poverty"a US Census definition for places with poverty rates of 20%