Text dt., engl. - Absurd-ironisch und komisch zugleich muten die Bilder des Fotojournalisten und -künstlers Peter Granser an. Für seinen Bilderzyklus "Sun City" porträtierte er gutsituierte Senioren im Rentnerparadies Sun City, der grössten Seniorenkolonie der USA. Knapp 50.000 Pensionäre wohnen hier unter dem ewig blauen Himmel, zugewandert aus allen Staaten der USA. Peter Gransers Bilder wandern auf dem schmalen Grad zwischen Fotojournalismus und surrealistisch anmutender Kunst. Die Porträtierten wirken wie Abziehbilder ihrer selbst, von Patriotismus durchtränkt, umgeben von Gartenzwergen und rosa Kunststoff-Flamingos. Für seine Bilder-Serie erhielt Granser bereits den renommierten World Press Award 2002 und den Arles Discovery Award 2002. (schaden.com).
Text engl. - „David Hurn is one of Britain’s most important reportage photographers and a member of Magnum Photos since 1965. His documentary photographs are distinguished by their quiet observation and remarkable insight. Released to coincide with Magnum photo agency’s seventieth birthday, this is the first book dedicated to Hurn’s photographs from Arizona. “In 1979/80 I was awarded a ‘U.K./USA Bicentennial Fellowship’. This was a one year award to photograph in America. I chose Arizona – it is the most right wing state in America, plus it is the driest State in America. The exact opposite of my home country Wales. The contrasts appealed to me.” Hurn fell in love with Arizona and made several trips back between 1979 and 2001. Hurn’s greatest subject is ordinary people pursuing ordinary passions and in Arizona he turned his inimitable eye to ordinary Arizonians in their daily life, their schools, exercise classes, holidays and their landscape. “I love to observe what people – or, better still, groups of people – are doing. I’ve always been nosy, I suppose, and having a camera allows one to indulge one’s curiosity and record it. The incredible pleasure of photography is that you have to be there to do it. You have to get outside and meet people. ... And being there can be extraordinary.” - “Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as they are.” (David Hurn; zit n. DGPh Intern, Aktuelle Bücher 2017).