{"product_id":"thomas-hoepker-the-way-it-was-road-trips-usa-9783969990810","title":"Thomas Hoepker: The Way it was. Road Trips USA","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Hoepker was 27 years old when he set out on his ambitious journey across the United States—one that took him from coast to coast and back again over the course of three months and resulted in thousands of photos. The year was 1963, and Hoepker had been commissioned by the German magazine \u003cem\u003eKristall\u003c\/em\u003e to \"discover\" America through his camera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe photo reportages he made, published in five issues of the magazine across dozens of pages, revealed Hoepker's complex, sceptical, and sometimes melancholy view of the American everyday, in big cities, small towns, and all in between. His was an unromanticised vision in which the decadent existed alongside the desolate, the glitter with the grit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs much as Hoepker recognised that the problematic American dream could go unfulfilled, he was fascinated with the country (settling in New York in 1976). In 2020—at the age of 84 and after a successful career as a photojournalist and president of Magnum Photos—he once again set out on a road trip throughout the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Way it was. Road Trips USA\u003c\/em\u003e juxtaposes Hoepker's colour photographs from this trip with his original black-and-white images, taking us on a journey both through his changing sense of America and through time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471854289132,"sku":"9783969990810","price":95.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783969990810-thomas-hoepker-the-way-it-was-road-trips-usa.jpg?v=1775260249","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/thomas-hoepker-the-way-it-was-road-trips-usa-9783969990810","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}