BEHIND THE HEDGES

...The art of staying the same

In 1969, Will Vogt was given a Nikkormat camera for his 17th birthday, and he has been photographing his social circle since. Vogt’s images offer a raw, unvarnished glimpse into an American upper class that is inaccessible to most and remarkably unchanged by contemporary society.

In this book, the excesses of youth have given way to the refined cadence of tradition. Vogt’s images draw power from their tension between proximity and distance, functioning as portraits of a class oriented toward preservation within a nation otherwise defined by reinvention. They depict a community adept at weathering change while maintaining its habit of self-reproduction. 112 pages. 9.65"w × 10.24"h