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Matt Black Bundle: American Geography & Artifacts

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This two-volume set brings together Matt Black’s vivid portrait of an unknown America and its companion volume, presenting a deeper view of his six-year odyssey documenting poverty in the United States.

American Geography is a visual record of Black’s six-year, 100,000-mile journey across 46 states and Puerto Rico, visiting designated “poverty areas” with poverty rates above 20 percent. This compelling compilation of black-and-white photographs is accompanied by Black’s own travelogue of observations, overheard conversations, and snippets from daily life, chronicling the vulnerable conditions faced by America’s poor.

The companion volume presents photographs of objects, assemblages, and collages collected in these same “areas of concentrated poverty.” From plastic spoons and lottery tickets to family photographs and broken tools, these humble, discarded objects form a portrait of America assembled from its roadways and sidewalks.

Together, the two books present a powerful, unflinching critique of inequality in the United States and the reality of an America cut off from the “American Dream.”

Specification

American Geography
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Size: 10.8 in x 10.7 inches (274 x 272 mm)

American Artifacts
First edition
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2024
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 172
Size: 10.5 x 10.4 inches (267 x 364 mm)

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Matt Black

Matt Black is from California’s Central Valley, a rural, agricultural area in the heart of the US state.

Between 2014 and 2020, he traveled over 100,000 miles across 46 states for his project, American Geography, published by Thames & Hudson in 2021, accompanied by a traveling exhibition that opened at the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.

Other works include The Dry Land, about the impact of drought on California’s agricultural communities, and The Monster in the Mountains, about the disappearance of 43 students in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. Both these projects, accompanied by short films, were published by The New Yorker.

His work has appeared regularly in the US and international press, including Timemagazine, The New Yorker, Le Monde and Internazionale. In 2025 he was awarded The MacArthur Fellowship. He has been honored three times by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Prize. He received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award in 2015, and was named a senior fellow at the Emerson Collective. He was nominated to Magnum Photos in 2015, and became a full member in 2019.