Fine Print: Downtown through sunflowers. Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 2005-2018 Paper size:18 x 22 in (46 x 56 cm) symbolised the Cold War and

symbolised the Cold War and

of the other”

who had met Picasso’s partner Francoise Gilot in Paris a few years previously

The Berlin Wall – a heavily guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided the city – was built in 1961

whether we are involved or not

Fine Print: Downtown through sunflowers. Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 2005-2018 Paper size:18 x 22 in (46 x 56 cm) symbolised the Cold War andOver the course of 15 years, Gregory Halpern photographed Omaha, Nebraska, steadily compiling a lyrical, if equivocal, response to the American Heartland. Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies, playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place. Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power.