Passing Through Eden Alan Huck Maps and atlases

Maps and atlases

Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)

an Aperture monograph

First published by Steidl in 2004

In amongst their exchanges of personal histories and shared influences – from Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man and André 3000 to Robert Frank’s The Americans and Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet – developed a searing investigation of the redemptive power of art and the imagination

Passing Through Eden Alan Huck Maps and atlasesTod Papageorge began to photograph extensively in New Yorks Central Park in the late 1970s, a few years after he turned from the Leica to medium format cameras. These pictures, gathered in Passing Through Eden, luminously trace, as Rosalind Krauss has written about Papageorges work, photographys capacity to embrace the sensuous richness of physical reality [in order to] come tothat fullness which Baudelaire used to call intimacy, when he meant