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Publisher Note

Hatleberg is known for traveling America, guided by intuition, to create scenes of American life and landscape. Working collaboratively with the people he meets, he recounts intimate stories of family and community. Here, in the follow-up to his first monograph Lost Coast (TBW Books, 2016), Hatleberg centers his narrative on the dog days of summer. Sweltering heat, dripping humidity, lush vegetation, and screaming insects– River’s Dream is a pulsing and episodic hallucination of life lived outdoors.
In these sixty-five photographs, we move through swamps and groves, front yards and junkyards, encountering moments of haunting mystery and beautiful impermanence. Heightened by formal repetition, echo, and refrain, everyday scenes take on surreal, allegorical qualities. In the end, Hatleberg leaves us with the impression of memory, where the past is never gone, but appears and reappears endlessly, as in the flickering of a dream.

Photobook

River's Dream

by Curran Hatleberg

Publisher
Release Place Oakland CA, United States of America
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2022
Credits
Printrun 2000
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-1-942953-50-0
Work  
Topics American Landscape, American Life, Community
Language English
Format Hardcover with dustjacket
Dimensions 29.7 × 35.0 cm
Pages 152