Research Catalog

Mark Peterson : political theatre

Title

Mark Peterson : political theatre / [photographs by] Mark Peterson ; essay by John Heilemann.

Author

Peterson, Mark, 1955-

Publication

Göttingen : Steidl, 2016.
©2016

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	TR820 .P48 2016q Oversize	Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, portraits.; 21 x 30 cm

Summary

Over the past two years Mark Peterson has photographed American presidential candidates as they lead rallies, meet with voters and plead for votes. He started shortly before the government shutdown in 2013 at a Tea Party rally at the US Capitol, when politicians were railing against President Obama and the Affordable Care Act?a show to get a sound bite into the next news cycle.0Since then Peterson has followed the political spin as it approaches the November 2016 election. Donald Trump?s entrance into the race?taking control of TV talking heads and making the media his press agent?is true political theatre. In a similar gesture, Bernie Sanders raised an arm in a power salute to waiting photographers after giving a speech in New Hampshire. Peterson pulls back the curtain on such performances to show these politicians as they really are. Although they are in plain sight, they hide behind words and carefully arranged imagery to project their vision of America. Peterson cuts through such staging and reveals the cold, naked ambition for power.

Alternative Title

Political theatre

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Pictorial works.

ISBN

395829183X
9783958291836

OCLC

ocn951032592
951032592
SCSB-1870383

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library