Bruce Wrighton - At Home de Bruce Wrighton [limitée et numérotée à 500 ex.] - 2010

Book in excellent condition. Bruce Wrighton’s “At Home” constitutes the first four-color project in our limited-edition photography book collection for collectors. Across 128 pages and through 81 images — mostly full-page — the work depicts the daily life of a small town in the 1980s.

"Bruce Wrighton’s work focused on a relatively small area — downtown Binghamton, New York, and a few nearby localities — and on a fairly short period, the artist having died in 1988 at the age of 38.

Yet he succeeded in portraying a place, a time, and a social class in America; a testimony that makes a portion of history come alive far more vividly — and far more pleasing to behold — than most school textbooks would. If the frame is clearly visible through his street scenes, restaurants, hotels, or warehouses, it is above all in his portraits of inhabitants that the very essence of this place is revealed. Today, Wrighton’s subjects can be found in many small towns — perhaps even more numerous in 2010 than in the 1970s, as many have seen their main employers disappear, thus increasing the weight of economic hardship.

Thus, he immortalized a “small” history with major repercussions; a history that remains alive in two ways: by its echoes that still resonate across the country, and by the longevity of these images. Photography, life, and history continue to move forward together."