Nineteen Lincolns features members of The Association of Lincoln Presenters, passionate Abraham Lincoln impersonators who spend time studying, reading, and performing for school groups, community celebrations, and senior citizen centers. Paired with their own words, these portraits show their reverence for Lincoln, who embodies one of America’s most cherished tenets, that the common man, through sheer hard work and determination, can elevate his status in society.
Nineteen Lincolns
Published by Peanut Press
Hardcover / 40 Pages / 18 Color Plates
Includes one signed and numbered original photograph and one signed and numbered book.
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Books
The Wavers
Blue Sky Books (2014)
Soft cover / 21 color photos along with statements by the Wavers.
Essay by Eleanor Heartney.
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“It is not a stretch to see these Wavers as the “tempest tossed” exiles celebrated in Lazarus’s poem. But these are no longer immigrants lured by the promise of the American dream. They are instead our own people, Americans for whom the hopes symbolized by Lady Liberty have yet to fully materialize.” Eleanor Heartney
Using History
Published by Steidl (2005)
Hardcover / 67 color photographs
Essays by Rennard Strickland and Karal Ann Marling.
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Using History takes us on a tour of Americans celebrating their past. From Civil War battle reenactments to Abraham Lincoln impersonators to colossal buffalos and Indians, Greta Pratt’s photographs examine how historic iconography is used, and challenge us to question who Americans are. Taking an approach that is both affectionate toward her subjects yet sardonic about the larger implications of their actions, Pratt cuts to the heart of the ambivalent drives that move Americans.
In Search of the Corn Queen
Published by Smithsonian American Art Museum (1994)
Soft Cover / 96 pages / 61 black and white Photographs
Essay by Karal Ann Marling.
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Greta Pratt returns to the county fairs of her childhood to present a vision of Midwest communities largely unfamiliar to millions of American urban dwellers. For three summers she traveled the Midwest chronicling the life of the region-parades of civic pride, displays of exemplary harvests, and prizewinning heifers, beauty pageants, old-timer reunions, and annual storefront festivals.
AHistoric Occasion: Artists Making History
Published by Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. (2007)
Paperback / 120 pages
Featuring Mass MoCA’s “Ahistoric Occasion” exhibition
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The catalog to accompany MASS MoCA's 2006-2007 exhibition Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History, which explored the growing interest in historic reenactment and revision in contemporary art. The show consisted of over 30 works ranging from video to sculpture to photography, by artists Paul Chan, Jeremy Deller, Felix Gmelin, Kerry James Marshall, Trevor Paglen, Greta Pratt, Dario Robleto, Nebojsa Seric-Shoba, Yinka Shonibare and Allison Smith, plus a new site-specific commission by Peggy Diggs
Catalogs & Other Books
The Old, Weird America
Toby Kamps, M. Duncan, C. Sheeby, and D. Robleto (2008)
Hardcover / 160 pages
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The artists featured in this volume, all of whom came to prominence in the last decade, include Jeremy Blake, Sam Durant, Barnaby Furnas, Brad Kahlhamer, Margaret Kilgallen, Dario Robleto, Allison Smith and Kara Walker, among others. As a group, they draw on folklore for its ability to illuminate American cultural life in its strange mixture of civilization and barbarism, enlightenment and madness.
History as Art, Art as History: Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education
Dipti Desai, Jessica Hamilin, Rachel Mattson (2009)
Multiple formats available
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History as Art, Art as History pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. The fully-illustrated interdisciplinary teaching toolkit provides an invaluable pedagogical resource—complete with theoretical background and practical suggestions for teaching U.S. history topics through close readings of both primary sources and provocative works of contemporary art.