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Another America by Phillip Toledano

Posted on April 26, 2024 - By Phillip Toledano
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Another America by Phillip Toledano
Another America by Phillip Toledano
‘Another America’ is an invented history of New York City from 1940-1950, with accompanying short stories by New Yorker writer John Kenney.

Truth in America has been slowly dying over the last decade. The country is consumed with conspiracy theories. For millions, facts are a choice. For millions, history is a choice. The arrival of AI is the next stage in the demise of truth.

We are at an extraordinarily important point in history. For the first time since photography was invented, we have a medium that makes everything true, and nothing true. We can recreate the world as it never was. For every conspiracy theory, there can be visual proof. Convincing photographic evidence that makes the lie real.

Another America, a new book by British, US based, conceptual artist Phillip Toledano and published by L’Artiere, takes this idea, and creates a history that never existed. A world complete with people, events, and disasters, couched in the veracity of the past.

Did this really happen? Is this real history? The images are simultaneously familiar and strange, much like the world in which we live.


Phillip Toledano

© Phillip Toledano, Another America courtesy of L’Artiere



Phillip Toledano

© Phillip Toledano, Another America courtesy of L’Artiere



Phillip Toledano

© Phillip Toledano, Another America courtesy of L’Artiere



Phillip Toledano

© Phillip Toledano, Another America courtesy of L’Artiere


Phillip Toledano
Toledano was born in 1968 in London, to a French Moroccan mother and an American father. He grew up in London and Casablanca.
He received a BA in English literature from Tufts University in Boston. Toledano considers himself a conceptual artist: Everything starts with an idea, and the idea determines the execution. Consequently, his work varies in medium, ranging from photography to installation, sculpture, painting and video.

His work has been exhibited worldwide. His images have appeared in magazines such as the New Yorker, the New York Times magazine Esquire, GQ, The Sunday Times, Le Monde, to name a few.

This is his 8th book - other books include: ‘Days With My Father ‘ (published in 3 languages), ‘A New Kind of Beauty, ‘Maybe’ , ‘Phonesex‘, ‘When I Was Six’ , 'The Reluctant Father', and ‘Bankrupt’.
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Phillip Toledano

© Phillip Toledano, Another America courtesy of L’Artiere



Phillip Toledano

© Phillip Toledano, Another America courtesy of L’Artiere



Phillip Toledano

© Phillip Toledano, Another America courtesy of L’Artiere



Phillip Toledano

© Phillip Toledano, Another America courtesy of L’Artiere



Phillip Toledano

© Phillip Toledano, Another America courtesy of L’Artiere


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