{"id":11449,"date":"2022-09-19T18:13:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T19:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=11449"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:19:08","slug":"the-americans-i-met","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/en\/books\/photography\/the-americans-i-met\/","title":{"rendered":"The Americans I Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"infos-livre\">\n<li>Photographs : Viktor H\u00fcbner<\/li>\n<li>Texts : Viktor H\u00fcbner and Lyle Rexer<\/li>\n<li>Translation : Cl\u00e9ment Paradis<\/li>\n<li>Design: Michael Schmitz<\/li>\n<li>248 pages<\/li>\n<li>Format 22,5 x 28 cm, Hard cover<\/li>\n<li>71 colour pictures<\/li>\n<li>English\/french<\/li>\n<li>ISBN : 978-2-492696-07-7<\/li>\n<li>Released November 9th, 2022<\/li>\n<li>\u20ac49<\/li>\n<li><em>The Americans I Met<\/em> was supported by the R\u00e9gion Sud, Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/logo-paca.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"40\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11529 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-14-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-14-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-14-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-14-1-420x301.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>A limited edition of 60 copies<\/h2>\n<p>Order your book signed by Viktor H\u00fcbner + a 16 x 13 cm (6 x 5 Inch) signed print (Book cover image). 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Fine Art Photo Pigmentary print on Hanem\u00fchle. <strong>\u2013 \u20ac550<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a class=\"in_page_button\" href=\"\/panier\/?add-to-cart=11449&amp;variation_id=11943&amp;attribute_pa_version=avec-tirageamp;quantity=1\">Add to cart<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*Upon receipt of your order, we will send you a PDF of the pictures of the book to make your choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The book<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;The French talk incessantly about France.\u00a0 The Germans talk about Germany.\u00a0 The Italians talk about Italy and the Chinese about China.\u00a0 But everyone talks about America, and they have done for 200 years. By America we mean specifically the United States.\u00a0 As if no matter what the world signified \u2013 in some larger scheme of things \u2013 it could only be understood in terms of this place and what it might become and has become, with its genocidal origins, pathological individualism, \u201cdesolate frenzy of unbounded technology,\u201d na\u00efve belief in personal generosity, its Darwinian social landscape and an absolute void where any notion of \u201cthe state\u201d might be. A void filled by money, revealed religion (Christianity), drug use, firearms purchases and media content \u00bb. Lyle Rexer.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Americans I Met<\/em> by Viktor H\u00fcbner. A photographic and oral history project that collects portraits of and conversations with people that photographer Viktor H\u00fcbner encountered during a series of cross-country hitchhiking trips in the United States. With only his camera, audio recorder, and a few provisions, he covered 41 states and over 16,000 miles. Throughout H\u00fcbner\u2019s travels, he embraced chance encounters and relied daily on the hospitality of people he met. As a result, the foreign traveler became an eye-witness to many Americans\u2019 practical and spiritual lives and the bearer of many confidences. This book focuses on the people H\u00fcbner met on his travels, their words, their experiences, and, by extension, the Trump Era in which they lived.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-1-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-1-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-1-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the United States, foreigners always tend to discover what they are already carrying, so America becomes their distorting mirror. De Tocqueville brought a horror of despotism and a fear of republican extremism, so America was his perfect foil, his utopia and dystopia all rolled into one. Later philosophers like Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard, steeped in semiotics, saw an empire of signs and called it hyperreality, a domain of simulacra \u2013 never entertaining the notion that maybe ordinary folk didn\u2019t take the pyramids of Las Vegas quite so literally.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-2-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-2-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-2-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-3-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-3-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-3-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The famous Robert Frank, the Swiss native, found precisely the things he could not find in postwar Europe, which is why he came in the first place: na\u00efve patriotism, fundamentalist religion, vibrant subcultures, social ambiguity, and African Americans. His tour had its dark side, especially in images of jingoist genuflection before the flag and an obvious segregation of the races.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-4-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-4-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-4-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-5-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-5-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-5-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>H\u00fcbner absorbed and stylistically updated the roadwork of many photographers (Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, Mitch Epstein, among others), in addition to fellow Germans such as Thomas Struth, who traveled to Yosemite and El Capitan to show us the line of parked cars and tourists ready to click away. But H\u00fcbner also engaged the strategies of conceptual and performance art. He made rules, set up a system, let it run, and went where the process took him. No rental cars, no hotels, no public transportation, no Internet booking, no sex with the people he met, only enough money for food and film, be open to what people said, don\u2019t cut them off. If this sounds risky \u2013 16,000 miles of it covered between 2017 and 2019 \u2013 consider that this all took place during the Trump presidency, when \u201cculture wars\u201d became a battle cry and the notion that high fences make good neighbors became more than a metaphor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-6-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-6-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-6-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-7-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-7-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-7-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>H\u00fcbner is the opposite of Robert Frank. Where Frank sought theme and pattern, with undertones of menace and revelation, H\u00fcbner seeks anomaly and apparition \u2013 sudden inexplicability. He is open to the absurd in a way Frank never was. This vision is balanced \u2013 or better to say augmented \u2013 by many attentive and even appreciative portraits, where judgement is put aside. Given the total penetration of social media, we are inundated with pictures of people we don\u2019t know and have no connection to, often doing silly things. The notion of photographic portraiture has gone out the window. But in this book, the portraits play a key role. They slow down the pace of travel and shift attention from events to persons, from stereotypes to individuals, from tourism to engagement. These capture a texture of humanity, people who breathe outside the frame. Maybe Americans really do have inner lives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-8-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-8-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-8-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-8-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-9-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-9-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-9-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-9-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yet the question remains, what has H\u00fcbner discovered in his travels? Is it simply what he brought with him, the myths, pop-cultural icons, sensational media coverage, and European skepticism about a nation too powerful for its own good? Based on what he has edited of his conversations \u2013 essential reading for this book\u2019s photographs \u2013 they seem to confirm everything anyone might already have imagined. For one thing, Americans are deeply afraid, even suspicious of each other.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-10-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-10-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-10-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-10-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-11-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-11-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-11-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-11-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People who are different, communities of otherness \u2013 these are not big tent virtues in H\u00fcbner\u2019s America. It\u2019s not just a question of monolithic racism or nationalism directed at people who don\u2019t belong here (the Trump mantra), but a profound sense of fragmentation that reaches much deeper than any dog-whistle labels. As de Tocqueville understood so long ago, Americans are primed to be wary \u2013 of other Americans!<\/p>\n<p>But if this were all H\u00fcbner discovered, he would have ended his journeys a lot earlier. What kept him going, I suspect, was something else that de Toqueville also marveled at: openness and generosity in the face of a completely unknown person, the stranger.<\/p>\n<p>Lyle Rexer, extracts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-12-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-12-1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-12-1-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.andrefrereditions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/the-americans-i-met-viktor-hubner-andre-frere-editions-12-1-420x338.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>H\u00fcbner\u2019s journey, photographs, and conversations represent an exploration of what it meant to be American in the Trump Era and the issues that continue to affect Americans personally and politically. Even though all the Americans he met belong to the same society, their existence often could not be more different. People\u2019s lives took place in wholly divided communities, \u200cfar away from each other, under vastly different circumstances and future perspectives. The distance is not only a physical range but also decisively separated by class, identity and ideology. In his photographs and written accounts, H\u00fcbner tried to convey these peoples\u2019 environments, how they live, and the stories they told him. With only his camera and audio recorder, he found himself a wanderer between these different realities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs : Viktor H\u00fcbner Texts : Viktor H\u00fcbner and Lyle Rexer Translation : Cl\u00e9ment Paradis Design: Michael Schmitz 248 pages Format 22,5 x 28 cm, Hard cover 71 colour pictures English\/french ISBN : 978-2-492696-07-7 Released November 9th, 2022 \u20ac49 The Americans I Met was supported by the R\u00e9gion Sud, Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur A limited edition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11531,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[43,37],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11449","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-new-books","7":"product_cat-photography","8":"product_shipping_class-c3-en","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-variable"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Americans I Met | Andr\u00e9 Fr\u00e8re \u00c9ditions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Americans I Met par Viktor H\u00fcbner dans la cat\u00e9gorie New books, Photography. 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