American Readers at Home New Cut

Fascinating insights into the thoughts and minds of American citizens and news readers in uncertain, extraordinary times

When American Readers at Home was published in early 2018, it was met with widespread praise. The German weekly Die Zeit called it a fascinating contemporary document of contradictions. The manager of a major London art bookshop tweeted on April 10, 2018 that he had checked ALL the books at London Book Fair today to find the best one and this is it: American Readers at Home [] It's incredible! The book soon sold out, no least because it won gold in the 2019 German Design Award and was also among the winners of the 2018 Swiss and German national book design competitions.

Swiss graphic designer and photographer Ludovic Balland has now put together a new selection of the compelling material amassed on his road trip across the United States during the 2016 presidential campaign. American Readers at HomeNew Cut brings together color photographs of cityscapes and black-and-white portraits of American citizens with interviews about their use of news media, alongside facsimiles of newspapers and collages with statements about the current state of the country. Four years have passed, yet none of these stories have lost their power or urgency!

• New selection and compilation of the material put together by Ludovic Balland in 2016 for his internationally recognized Archive of American Readers

• The original first edition, American Readers at Home (ISBN 978-3-85881-809-6), was awarded the 2019 German Design Award in gold and was also among the winners of the 2018 Swiss and German national book design competitions

  Autorentext
  Ludovic Balland lives and works in Basel as a graphic designer specializing in entire editorial projects. He also at various art schools and universities in Switzerland, Europe, and the US.

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  «Ein faszinierendes Zeitdokument der Widersprüchlichkeiten», schrieb Die Zeit, als «American Readers at Home» 2018 erschien. Der Schweizer Publizist Daniel Binswanger nannte es «die Psychoanalyse der amerikanischen Mediennutzung». Bald schon war das Buch vergriffen, was wohl auch an den vielen Auszeichnungen lag, die es erhielt: German Design Award 2019 in Gold, Schönste Deutsche Bücher, Schönste Schweizer Bücher. Nun legt der Gestalter und Fotograf Ludovic Balland eine neue Zusammenstellung seines vielbeachteten Materials vor: «American Readers at Home - New Cut». Auf 276 Seiten verbinden sich Fotografien von Stadtlandschaften, Interviews mit amerikanischen Zeitungslesern über ihre Mediengewohnheiten, Fotoporträts derselben Menschen sowie Faksimiles von Zeitungsseiten und zu Collagen zusammengefügte Statements über den Zustand der USA im 21. Jahrhundert. Aufgenommen hat Ludovic Balland die Interviews und die Fotografien im Präsidentschaftswahlkampf 2016. Aber nichts davon hat an Aussagekraft oder Dringlichkeit verloren - im Gegenteil! Julien Gester, Kulturjournalist für die französische Tageszeitung Libération, und der Kurator Hilar Stadler haben neue Vorworte beigesteuert.