Fine Print: Checkers. USA, 2004-2019 Erich Hartmann

Fine Print: Checkers. USA, 2004-2019 Erich HartmannOver two decades, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, meticulously crafting the series of photographs that forms his latest monograph. King, Queen, Knave is an idiosyncratic vision of a city amidst its contradictions, defying familiar narratives of post industrial decline and embracing an enigmatic strain of reality verging on surrealism. Halperns mesmerising sequence unfurls as a stage across which

It’s an image of humor rooted not in performance but in perfect stillness

The poster is hand stamped on the back with a Magnum Photos Collection stamp to authenticate this genuine Magnum poster

Eve Arnold’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe captures the actress in a subdued moment

Davidson imbues his work with an eye for narrative

the rise of ISIS and an ongoing global refugee crisis

Potential for light wear

Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies

On the front

and not know where you will end up or how the journey will change you

Dressed in a tux and a top hat

Each picture is a comment upon our experience of the twentieth century

What was meant to be a communal moment now lingers as a scene of interruption and persistence