Thomas Alleman: “Social Studies” is a unique look at regular events

Capturing the Eccentric Moments of Everyday Life

Thomas Alleman began writing for a political tabloid in Lansing, Mich., in the early 1980s. Although he liked the writing at the weekly, he wasn’t…

via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/04/13/thomas_alleman_social_studies_is_a_unique_look_at_regular_events_photos.html

Alleman began working on a personal project titled “Social Studies” in the mid-1980s that embodied his goal as a photographer: “to stand aside from the assigned narrative of whatever situation I was photographing … and deconstruct it; my favorite pictures demonstrated a multitude of ‘facts’ within a fog of obfuscations; the scene didn’t add up, the context had been hijacked and re-formatted,” he said.