The result – a curious collection of images often referred to as the “Mask Series”
where Rodger appears to have been able to photograph freely
including her visit to the Opera House
three years after her breakout starring role in Roman Holiday
a Mexican prisoner
Fine Print: Ladder and house. Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 2005-2018 Size:18 x 22 in (46 x 56 cm) The result – a curiousOver the course of 15 years, Gregory Halpern photographed Omaha, Nebraska, steadily compiling a lyrical, if equivocal, response to the American Heartland. Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies, playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place. Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power.