The Colors of American Patriotism in the Age of Trump | The New Yorker

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The Colors of American Patriotism in the Age of Trump

In “Bored on the 4th of July,” the photographer Chris Maggio uses a flat, snapshot style that makes his subjects look equal parts lurid and lonely.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-colors-of-american-patriotism-in-the-age-of-trump

These are just a few of the makeshift gestures of American patriotism that the New York-based photographer Chris Maggio collects and dissects in his sly series “Bored on the 4th of July,” which he shot last summer, often in the suburbs, and mostly on trips around the Northeast. He has said that he was interested in creating imagery that channelled “the confusion and polarisation of a country where everyone has a differing opinion of what it means to be an upstanding American.”