Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Simone Kappeler, born 1952, read German and French literature and art history at University of Zurich before studying photography at Zurich's School of Design (now Zurich University of the Arts), from where she graduated in 1979. She lives and works as a freelance photographic artist in Zurich.
Peter Pfrunder is director of Swiss Foundation for Photography in Winterthur, Switzerland.
"[A] captivating album of horizons glimpsed and encounters chanced across a vast, open, easygoing country that you might have some trouble recognizing right now."
Smithsonian Magazine
"Nearly a quarter-century after that other Swiss photographer, Robert Frank, made his road trip, Kappeler’s lens found different Americans. It’s not so much that this was a different America; it wasn’t. The Cold War was raging, Ronald Reagan had just taken office, and a new conservatism was spreading across the country. The blind politics and social divisions that Frank highlighted in the 1950s were returning after two decades of cultural radicalism. But Kappeler’s book seems to ask: What if Frank’s 767 rolls of film were edited with an eye for joy, instead of strife, separation, and hardship?"
Photo-Eye blog
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Simone Kappeler, born 1952, read German and French literature and art history at University of Zurich before studying photography at Zurich's School of Design (now Zurich University of the Arts), from where she graduated in 1979. She lives and works as a freelance photographic artist in Zurich.
Peter Pfrunder is director of Swiss Foundation for Photography in Winterthur, Switzerland.