American Testimony

By Peter Martens, Post Editons, Rotterdam, 2012. Original edition, Text in English, 184 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Condition : Excellent.

130€

“American Testimony is Marten’s penetrating account of his many trips to the United States. From the moment he discovered America in the early seventies, it became his favourite place to work. There, the confusion and lovelessness which he regarded as characteristic of modern Western Society, unfolded before him like nowhere else. There, he found the subjects that obsessed him as photojournalist. His matter was the everyday war in the street, the news that is so news but daily reality for countless people. Life in the States, Martens indicated, could be just as ruthless as living in dictatorships or developing countries…”