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Phil Bergerson

A Retrospective

Photographs by Phil Bergerson
Contributions by Don Snyder, Peter Higdon
Foreword by Robert Burley
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Daylight Books, NC, United States
Published: 21st May 2020
Dimensions: w 276mm h 333mm d 15mm
Weight: 2055g
ISBN-10: 1942084781
ISBN-13: 9781942084785
Barcode No: 9781942084785
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Synopsis
A retrospective of Phil Bergerson's career. The first section's, extensive essay addresses his student days, early teaching and organizing years and his various photographic projects (1967-1989). The second part deals with Bergerson's pursuit of the human condition found within the American Social landscape. It begins with an historically contextualizing essay, followed by a sequence created from selections from Bergerson's first two books on America. This is followed by Bergerson's most recent photographs accompanied by a critical essay.

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"Bergerson's work over the past 25 years assumes the form of a sweeping topographical
survey, mirroring his peripatetic wanderings, and encapsulating his distinctive way of merging
the roles of documentary photographer and cultural commentator in his images. Bergerson
finds his material amid the melancholic detritus of the urban fabric: in modest store window
displays, hand-painted murals, graffiti, and crudely made signs. A chaotic urban landscape
emerges, one engendered by unmoored dreams, raw desires, simmering fears, commercial
fantasies, rampant patriotism, and a smouldering violence."
David Harris, Independent Curator, Photography Historian and Professor Emeritus, Ryerson University, author of Eugene Atget, Unknown Paris

Writers who understand the role of 'visual thinking' have been drawn to Bergerson's work.
After examining Bergerson's first book on America, Annie Proulx wrote: "If I were teaching
short story writing the only textbook I would assign would be your collection of photographs."
Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News

"The 60's and 70's were important revolutionary times for contemporary photography and
Bergerson was there in the thick of it. First by meeting many of those involved in Rochester
while he was still a student at Ryerson and later through the 70's and 80's as a
teacher/organizer who brought many of the most important photographers of the twentieth
century to speak at Ryerson, including Kertesz, Robert Frank, Eugene Smith, Friedlander,
Frederick Sommer, and historians Gernsheim and Szarkowski. He is also a photographer with a
vision, a particular, intriguing view of the world, an ability to see beyond the obvious and craft
the graphic nature of his photographs into well-constructed statements."
Jerry Uelsmann, Photographer, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida

Over the decades, many of the international lecturers Bergerson invited to speak presented
unique lectures. "Phil was the first person to ask me to lecture on my relationship to and use of
photography".
Michael Snow, Artist

"Suffocating from the fumes of critical theory is a terrible death to die, but unlike drowning, it
can go on for hours."
Joel Snyder 1983 at the Symposium on Photographic Theory, Ryerson
University

"In 1983, Bergerson organized the Symposium on Photographic Theory where tensions arose
that thrilled the audience when each speaker staked out his theoretical territory. The
encounters over those two days stimulated lively discussions that carried for decades as the
participants continued to feed our ongoing interest in photographic theory."
Marta Braun, Photography Historian, Professor, Ryerson University, author of PicturingTime: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)