📖 American Solitudes

For 10 years, Jean-Luc Bertini traveled the length and breadth of the United States and, when the desire seized him, took photographs. Due to the profusion of photographic studies of America, his work might seem to have little to add to the subject, but with American Solitudes, he photographed the country and it's inhabitants as he thought he saw them, and as Walker Evans said, the secret of photography lies in the fact that the camera takes on the character and personality of the one who handles it, which questions his own vision of America and it's people. In his preface, Richard Ford focuses on the physiognomies of solitude in the country. Looking at his work, we build up an idea of the unique character of American solitudes, in non-binary terms, in which what is ours does not only belong to us.