Lookbooks Photography
American Landscapes
By Troy Patterson
Jul 13, 2022





























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Lookbooks Photography
By Troy Patterson
Jul 13, 2022
The New Yorker's Troy Patterson embarks on a journey through the American suburban landscape.
Photographing Charleston, South Carolina, and its environs, James Harvey-Kelly produces a study of ease and order in American suburbia. There is an air of careful idealisation to the portfolio. The visual noise of suburban sprawl is reduced to the happy clamour of a used-car lot, for instance, and signs of both the city’s siege in the American Revolution and its role in the eruption of the American Civil War remain out of frame.
And yet this is not a simple indulgent fantasy of Americana. Though the viewer is sure to detect a certain nostalgia in its eye for the everyday grandeur of architecture and for the art of folksy mailboxes alike, it is a nostalgia in the service of a contemporary vision. In one image, a proud Colonial house, its front columns solid with solemn dignity, stands under a sky intersected by black overhead wires and white vapor trails. The scene, capturing an unmistakable sense of place in an understated way, conveys a lovely weight of local humidity.
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