KATE SCHERMERHORN: America's Idea Of A Good Time

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KATE SCHERMERHORN: America's Idea Of A Good TimeWith an essay by Simon Winchester Kate Schermerhorn's pictures have wit and charm. Sometimes their irony can be frightening. They take us on a fascinating journey through the rich gamut of America's idea of a 'good time'. Mary Ellen Mark A quirky, funny, affectionate take on Americans at play. Nick Hall, Independent Magazine Schermerhorn works within the tradition of great American photography to show the surreal underbelly of the USA. Nick Waplington

Some 400 rolls of film

240mm x 165mm

London in 1994 and was also published as a book

160 photographs

He worked in the building trade until his early twenties before studying photography

A winner of the ‘European Publishers Award For Photography’ and of a ‘World Press Photo Award’

revealing a little

Berris Conolly was awarded one of the first commissions and decided to focus primarily on the industrial heartland of the Lower Don Valley

Made by anonymous photographers and hand-coloured by thousands of unknown women working in their studios

It offers a new insight into a subject central to the Cold War history of the Soviet Union

during which are encountered the last cattle market operating in the area

Using long exposures Levin reduces the landscape to elemental shapes