Steve Simon: The Republicans [Hardcover]

Steve Simon (Author), Mark Engler (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2006

Steve Simon was one of 15,000 accredited members of the press covering the Republican National Convention in which 5,000 delegates, protected by 10,000 New York City police officers, re-nominated George Bush as President. As the week-long media extravaganza and coronation got underway, it met the largest demonstrations ever to greet an American political convention. More than 400,000 protesters marched past a heavily fortified Madison Square Garden, exercising their right to free speech. Simon's work, which Harper's magazine's Stacy Clarkson has described as "photographs of the event that stand apart from all others--stunning, unique, intelligent and thought-provoking images which help us to consider the very health of our democracy," illuminates a pivotal time in the history of the "Divided States of America," the land of the free, where passionately diverging points of view meet unprecedented new levels of security.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Somehow, he was able to create stunning, unique, intelligent and thought-provoking images help us consider the health of our democracy. -- Stacey D. Clarkson of New York, Art Director for Harper’s Magazine

"Steve Simon behaves differently, showing us off-camera television personalities before they compose their august on-air expressions. Simon's images remain renegade." -- Mark Engler,from the introduction to The Republicans

"The book is a terrifying tour de force: half circus, half Armageddon in stark, disturbing yet often ruefully funny photographs." -- Gary Michael Dault, The Toronto Globe and Mail

"The book is a terrifying tour de force: half circus, half Armageddon in stark, disturbing yet often ruefully funny photographs. -- Gary Michael Dault, The Toronto Globe and Mail.

Living in an age when public debate is carefully choreographed, in this setting, in these times, Simon’s images remain renegade." -- From the introduction to The Republicans, by Mark Engler

The weight of a historical document that may well change the way the world looks back on America of 2004 -- Rita Leistner, Photographer and Author of Unembedded.

From the Publisher

"Somehow, Steve Simon was able to create photographs of the event that stand apart from all others--stunning, unique, intelligent and thought-provoking images which help us to consider the very health of our democracy".

Stacey D. Clarkson, Art Director , Harper's Magazine

"Steve Simon set to work to capture, in stark, disturbing and yet often ruefully funny black and white photographs, images of that summer's Republican Convention. The book is a terrifying tour de force: half circus, half Armageddon. It's tempting to think of Republicans as inevitably easy to caricature, but there are shots here of a tumult of true believers all tinctured to death with memories -- of 9/11, of Iraq, abortion phobia and of God's once being on their side -- that make your blood run cold."

Gary Michael Dault, The Toronto Globe and Mail

"Steve Simon behaves differently. He shows us the staging off-camera and television personalities before they compose their august on-air expressions. He gives us the blur of the secret service removing an unwanted dissident from the arena. Simon is an unusual type of spy, one who records information others regard as irrelevant. We live still in an age when public debate is carefully choreographed, under a government that prizes control. In this setting, in these times, Simon's images remain renegade."

Mark Engler, from the introduction to The Republicans

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 80 pages
• Publisher: Charta (February 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8881585618
• ISBN-13: 978-8881585618
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 9.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,799,958 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steve Simon has been passionate about documenting the beauty and drama of the human condition his entire photographic life. The author of four critically acclaimed photography books with works in major museum collections around the world, he has had solo shows in New York, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Montreal and his work has been featured three times at the Visa Pour L'Image Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan, France. He is on the faculty of ICP and SVA in New York and is a contributing photographer for The Digital Journalist. International awards include: Art Director's Club of New York, The Canadian Newspaper Photographer of The Year, Global Health Council Photography Award for his work on AIDS in Africa, Alfred Eisenstaedt Magazine Photography Award Nomination, PX3. He has lead workshops all over the world, including Mentor Series 2010 in New Orleans and Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai.

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