Through images taken by Rasmussen across dozens of states— introducing him to hundreds of people along the way—and essays by renowned legal scholar Frank H. Wu, the book seeks to provoke thought and conversation around the complicated nature of American identity. ‘The Good Citizen does not pretend to provide answers,’ says Rasmussen,“This is not a polemic, a textbook or a political tract. Rather, it is a series of images and essays that seek to provoke thought and conversation around the complicated nature of American identity.’
Exploring what it means to become American has been the focus of photographer Ben Rasmussen’s work for the past eight years. In The Good Citizen, he considers how American society came to be what it is today.
