Peter Hendricks: Good Copy - Hardcover

Georg Diez

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3882437898 ISBN 13: 9783882437898

Publisher: Steidl, 2002

Synopsis

Good Copy can be read like a novel, but one filled not with words but with pictures. In it, photographer Peter Hendricks recounts the story of his family, its roots, its development, its contemporariness. Over a period of five years, he has documented its everyday life: a child is born, a vacation is taken, so-and-so play together, a grandfather is visited. It's an ordinary life, just like any other, and it is sometimes intruded upon by the world that exists beyond its middle-class idyll. A war takes place in Kosovo, a large portion of the Sudanese population is starving, and Hendricks is there to take pictures. Then he returns home, and another child is born, another visit is paid to grandfather, and Hendricks witnesses all of these events equally and unsensationally through his camera.

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Synopsis

good copy can be read like a novel: without words, just in pictures Peter Hendricks recounts the story of his family, its roots, its developing, its contemporariness. Over a period of five years he has documented its everyday life: there a child is born, one goes on vacation, plays together, pays grandfather a visit. It's an ordinary life like everybody knows it. At the same time, there is a world beyond any middle-class idyll. There is war in Kosovo, and in Sudan a large part of the population is starving. Also there Peter Hendricks has taken photographs, but without being after the sensational. His pictures are unspectacular, and it doesn't present any problem to follow the author's paths. Back home again, another child is born, another visit paid to grandfather, and all of that is recorded in a very private album.

Edition details

• Publisher: Steidl
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3882437898
• ISBN 13: 9783882437898
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144