Good Morning America
3 primary works • 4 total works
Book 2
Since completing the first book, Power has travelled to rural locations where farming is the
dominant industry, from the Great Plains of the Dakotas and Montana to the snowbound terrain of
the Pacific Northwest. He also visited the Californian border with Mexico and made a return to the
Rust Belt – more overtly politically-charged regions. The photographs in this series of books are
organised neither by geography nor by subject and Good Morning, America (Volume II) continues
to draw on photographs made at the beginning of the project in 2012, alongside the more recent
photographs shot in the past few months.
dominant industry, from the Great Plains of the Dakotas and Montana to the snowbound terrain of
the Pacific Northwest. He also visited the Californian border with Mexico and made a return to the
Rust Belt – more overtly politically-charged regions. The photographs in this series of books are
organised neither by geography nor by subject and Good Morning, America (Volume II) continues
to draw on photographs made at the beginning of the project in 2012, alongside the more recent
photographs shot in the past few months.
Book 3
This 10-year project, created
as he meanders across the vast country, is a personal and timely exploration of both the American
cultural and physical landscape, and the divergence of reality and myth.'For as long as I can remember I've wanted to explore America, an ambition fueled by a legion of
TV shows that crossed the Atlantic in the 1960s," he writes. "As a young and impressionable child I
devoured The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Fugitive, but it was the westerns, evoking a landscape
altogether removed from the congested English suburbs surrounding me, that I loved most...I
began - although I may not have realised it at the time - to subconsciously search for the America
which lived in my imagination, the one generated during childhood, the one that had probably
never existed at all.'
The photographs in this series of books are organised neither by geography nor by subject. Good
Morning, America (Volume III) continues to draw on photographs made at the beginning of the
project in 2012, alongside the more recent photographs shot over the past year.
as he meanders across the vast country, is a personal and timely exploration of both the American
cultural and physical landscape, and the divergence of reality and myth.'For as long as I can remember I've wanted to explore America, an ambition fueled by a legion of
TV shows that crossed the Atlantic in the 1960s," he writes. "As a young and impressionable child I
devoured The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Fugitive, but it was the westerns, evoking a landscape
altogether removed from the congested English suburbs surrounding me, that I loved most...I
began - although I may not have realised it at the time - to subconsciously search for the America
which lived in my imagination, the one generated during childhood, the one that had probably
never existed at all.'
The photographs in this series of books are organised neither by geography nor by subject. Good
Morning, America (Volume III) continues to draw on photographs made at the beginning of the
project in 2012, alongside the more recent photographs shot over the past year.
Book 4
Power moved slowly through Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming before heading back to Colorado. In a later trip he travelled to Alaska and then another lengthy trip to Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and upstate New York. This new book includes some of these new images alongside those taken on previous trips. Power has described the process to be like ‘assembling a large and complicated jigsaw puzzle with little idea of what the final picture will be.’
Each book in the series has represented a shift in mood or tone. This latest book has seen the human presence subtly move from the peripheries or the incidental in the landscape to being a more integral part of some images. The tone of the book is more optimistic than previously, and the human presence diminishes a sense of isolation so often present in the vast landscape.
In the background on his recent trips the political landscape had shifted with the election of Joe Biden as 46th President. Power was aware that although domestic US politics seemed less dramatic and eventful under the new president, that the country remained divided with the next election around the corner.
Each book in the series has represented a shift in mood or tone. This latest book has seen the human presence subtly move from the peripheries or the incidental in the landscape to being a more integral part of some images. The tone of the book is more optimistic than previously, and the human presence diminishes a sense of isolation so often present in the vast landscape.
In the background on his recent trips the political landscape had shifted with the election of Joe Biden as 46th President. Power was aware that although domestic US politics seemed less dramatic and eventful under the new president, that the country remained divided with the next election around the corner.
Magnum photographer Mark Power has travelled expansively throughout the United States. A UK native, Power's perspective is that of an outsider. Observing the vast environmental and political landscape of the United States, Power has photographed the industrial heartlands of Appalachia, locations connected to climate change including one of the world's largest solar farms, an earth systems research facility, a major dam on the Colorado River and a Navajo Native American reservation among other diverse locations