Omaha Sketchbook Edition:Unsigned Kennedy’s raw empathy

Kennedy’s raw empathy

This revised and updated second edition revisits the project and includes 40 previously unpublished photographs

Though he has taken some of the most iconic images of the last half century

plastic sheets flapping

Omaha Sketchbook Edition:Unsigned Kennedy’s raw empathyIn this new edition of Omaha Sketchbook, Gregory Halpern returns to his lyrical yet equivocal account of the American heartland. Compiled over fifteen years of photographing Omaha, Nebraska, the book forms a prescient meditation on America, the men and boys who inhabit it, and the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power. In loosely collaged spreads that reproduce his construction paper sketchbooks, Halpern takes pleasure in dissonance and