We had to wait quite a long time, but now Joachim Brohm’s new photo book „Ohio“ has finally been published, a book with great pictures, which were taken in the early 80s. Brohm’s photographic view is direct, his compositions are cautious, his coloring subjective and targeted – just like one knows it already from his likewise remarkable series “Ruhr”.
The photographer shows banal scenes of the American everyday life. Cars, houses, parking lots, mostly empty streets, front gardens, side streets, reflections in shop windows – quiet images which have been generated in Ohio, but express a more comprehensive picture of the urban America. Brohm doesn’t simply display reality. His images rather bear witness to his deep interest in time and the world and make a statement.
Brohm’s artistic examination of everyday occurrences is also shown in the motive of decay: Symbols of the perishability of the American dream, which were also visible 25 years ago, move and bother people nowadays more than ever.
Maybe the images had to maturate such a long time in order to fully unfold their effect in this book edited by Thomas Wesky.
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Steidl, 2010 /// 295 x 250 mm /// 120 pages /// 40 color plates /// clothbound hardover with dust-jacket /// German, English
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€40.00
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