Just released.
The Invisible Yoke, Volume IV: We, the Free, is the final volume in photographer Matt Eich's four-part series of monographs with publisher Sturm & Drang that began in 2016 with the critically acclaimed Carry Me Ohio. It was followed by Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town (2018) and The Seven Cities (2020). The photographic series considers the weight of collective memory in the shaping of American identity.
Departing from the formula of depicting a regional microcosm, the final photobook We, the Free features images from the United States as a whole. Spanning nearly 15 years, the images were made as the artist came of age while the American superpower began to decline, and facing a time of increasing national tensions. This significant body of work is Eich's chronicle of contemporary American society entering a point of no return.
Matt Eich - We, the Free (The invisible Yoke vol. IV)
first edition of 1000 books
168 pages
24.5 cm x 25 cm
hardcover, linen printed cover.
Sturm & Drang publishers 2024
ISBN 978-3-906822-55-6
selected press from the previous volumes:
2016, The New Yorker, Photo Booth, “I Feel Forgotten: A Decade of Struggle In Rural Ohio” by Kate Linthicum
2019, The New Yorker on Sin & Salvation, Seven years on the margins in Rural Mississippi by Kate Linthicum
2016, CNN, “Finding Family in A ‘Brokenhearted’ Appalachian Town” by Hailey Middlebrook
Just released.
The Invisible Yoke, Volume IV: We, the Free, is the final volume in photographer Matt Eich's four-part series of monographs with publisher Sturm & Drang that began in 2016 with ...
