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State Fairs, an annual American ritual, are a willingly accepted assault on the senses - visual, acoustic, gastric (fried beer the latest delicacy) and a voluntary yielding of personal space to strangers. Chadbourne believes they are one of America's most demographically diverse and democratic institutions and a stage upon which human idiosyncrasies play out against a background of contextual complexity and human diversity. This book brings back amazing images in Chadbourne's signature, close up style. He brings to life the crash and chaos of a fair at full frenzy.

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Christopher Chadbourne lives in Boston and has taught design in the Graduate Schools of Design at Princeton, Columbia and Harvard. He was founder and creative director of one of the nation's leading design firms for the crafting of stories, exhibits and multimedia for some of the country's most prestigious museums. Diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease at age 67, he successfully returned to his early passion for photography. His work has been widely exhibted since. Bill Kouwenhoven is International Editor of HotShoe magazine. HotShoe is Europe's leading contemporary photographic magazine. In addition to working with HotShoe for the past three years, Kouwenhoven is a frequent contributor to numerous other contemporary photography journals in the United States, England and Europe including Afterimage, Aperture, British Journal of Photography, Foto 8, Photonews, Foto, European Photography, and Camera Austria. From 1996 to 2001 he was editor of the late but fondly remembered Photo Metro magazine of San Francisco. He lives and works in Berlin and New York. Paula Tognarelli is the Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography.

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