Gregory Halpern: Let the Sun Beheaded Be
By (Author) Gregory Halpern
Text by Clment Chroux
Contributions by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
By (author) Copublished by Aperture and Fondation dentreprise Herms
Aperture
Aperture
8th December 2020
United States
General
Non Fiction
770
Winner of Photobook of the Year for Zzyzx 2016
Hardback
120
700g
Sales Points
For fans of Halpern and all followers of new directions in documentary photography
Additional Comp Titles
ZZYZX, by Gregory Halpern. 9781910164655, $50.00 USD (MACK, 2016)House Hunting, by Todd Hido. 9781590055052, $75.00 USD (Nazraeli Press, 2019)Permanent Error, by Pieter Hugo. 9783791345208, $49.95 USD (Prestel, 2011)
Exhibition Schedule
SFMOMA, May 30August 9, 2020
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, September 2020
Gregory Halpern (born in Buffalo, New York, 1977) received a BA in history and literature from Harvard University, and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2014, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has published six books of his work: Harvard Works Because We Do (2003), A (2011), East of the Sun, West of the Moon (in collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato, 2014), ZZYZX (2016), Confederate Moons (2018), and Omaha Sketchbook (2019). He is coeditor of The Photographer's Playbook (with Jason Fulford, Aperture, 2014) and teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. Clment Chroux is senior curator in the department of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Previously, he served as chief curator of photography at the Muse National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and former editor of the website The Great Leap Sideways. His publication One Wall a Web (2018) won the 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award.