Past Time

Paul Shambroom

BOO 1765 U
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CONDITION & NOTES
Near Fine

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Hardcover

2020

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

English

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Fall Line Press 28 x 25.5 x 1.5 cm
CONDITION
Near Fine

TYPE
Hardcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2020

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
Fall Line Press

DIMENSIONS
28 x 25.5 x 1.5 cm

ABOUT

“Past Time” explores the political and cultural embrace of an idealized America that never existed for many. Inspired by the toxic nostalgia ingrained in our current political divisions, it contrasts popular imagery of our past with photographs of contemporary life taken in locations that helped form the notion of the “good old days.”

 

I photographed communities that helped inspire the mythical “normalcy” of the white middle-class nuclear family in picturesque post-WWII America towns: Stockbridge, MA (Norman Rockwell’s paintings of small town life), Mount Airy, NC(Andy Griffith’s televised morality tales in the fictional town of Mayberry), Seneca Falls, NY (Frank Capra’s film of a town rallying around its tortured banker hero), Marceline, MO (Walt Disney’s replication of his small-town Missouri main street in theme parks), Dixon, IL (home of actor and President Ronald Reagan), Placerville and Vallejo, CA (hometown and planned community associated with “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade) and others. 

– Paul Shambroom