American Readers at Home—New Cut

American Readers at Home—New Cut

Ludovic Balland (Editor), Pauline Mayor (Editor), Julien Gester (Foreword by), Hilar Stadler (Foreword by)
$40.00
Publication Date: June 24th, 2021
Publisher:
Scheidegger and Spiess
ISBN:
9783858818805
Pages:
276

Description

A new selection and compilation of the material put together by Ludovic Balland from the 2016 presidential election.
 
When American Readers at Home was published in early 2018, it was met with widespread praise. Swiss graphic designer and photographer Ludovic Balland has now put together a new selection of the compelling material amassed on his road trip across the United States during the 2016 presidential campaign. American Readers at Home—New Cut brings together color photographs of cityscapes and black-and-white portraits of American citizens with interviews about their use of news media, alongside facsimiles of newspapers, and collages with statements about the current state of the country. Four years have passed, yet none of these stories have lost their power or urgency.

French journalist Julien Gester, who writes for the French daily Libération, and Swiss curator Hilar Stadler have contributed new forewords.

About the Author

Ludovic Balland lives and works in Basel, Switzerland as a graphic designer specializing in entire editorial projects. He is also professor of typography at HGB Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig and lectures at various art schools and universities in Europe and the United States.
 

Pauline Mayor is a Swiss graphic designer. She is currently working at Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet in Basel.

Praise for American Readers at Home—New Cut

“[A] fascinating contemporary document of contradictions.”—Die Zeit

 “[A] fascinating contemporary document of contradictions.”
— Die Zeit