Disco Night Sept 11

Peter van Agtmael
Disco Night Sept 11

Photographs: Peter van Agtmael

Text: Peter van Agtmael

Publisher: Red hook editions

274 pages

Year: 2014

Comments: Black linen hardcover with picture tipped-in, 280 x 225 mm. First edition, 2014. Text in english.Like New

Disco Night Sept. 11 is a chronicle of America’s wars from 2006-2013. The photographs shift back and forth from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the USA, unsparingly capturing the violent, ceaseless cost, but also the mystery and the madness, the beauty and absurdity at the core of each conflict. The narrative is complemented by nineteen gatefolds which elaborate on places and individuals.

Photographs are fragments, sometimes only loosely tied to important experiences. An extensive text records some of the missing pieces. The stories that precede and follow the moment of the photograph, conversations with soldiers, anonymous graffiti that’s part confession, part boast. Disco Night Sept. 11 is an expansive yet intimate account of this defining era of history.