Christopher Anderson’s Eternal Revelations

On the 250th birthday of the American Experiment, I’m thinking about an American in Paris. For 30 years now, photographer Christopher Anderson has created a visual truth to this America, the 21st century chapter, with an investigation into what the Experiment sounds like, its echo. His photos capture what power feels like, what corruption looks like. Deep down, the work exposes what capitalism is colored by, and is responsible for. Photography, in the way Anderson wields the camera, is that collective truth serum. Whether it is photographing war, his family, cultural icons, the Trump Administration, Epstein, China, cops, kids, Bethlehem or Hermès, he delivers a rough, in-your-face, gut punch of reality.