"New Town" volume 1 by Andrew Hammerand

The photo book "New Town" volume 1 features a series of photographs taken in a mid western town. It was photographed by Andrew Hammerand. He was a student at Mass Art and was an unknown photographer when he decided to make this photo book. It was independently published in an edition of twenty five in Boston. I like the design of the book  because of the spiral binding that he used. I also like the fact that he used digital pictures and managed to get access to them by using his own camera which was in the public space and that could also move. The pictures that he got were very real I thought

He took them from a very high angle and from the same vantage point moving the camera around observing the various goings on with various people which I found interesting. The book ties in with the kind of work done by surveillance or the kind of the pictures you get on the internet. I feel that the book is important because it implies that photography plays a big part in they way we look at the world around us. It also implies how we go about looking for information about people in the United States. This has been important for the N.S.A. I think it is fascinating and this topic is getting much more prevalent by the day.