Holy Bible
Oliver Chanarin & Adam Broomberg
Holy Bible
Photographs: Olivier Chanarin & Adam Broomberg
Text: Adi Ophir
Publisher: Mack
721 pages
Pictures: 614
Year: 2013
Comments: Embossed black hardcover. 216 x 162 mm. First edition, second printing, 2013. Text english. Copy as new condition.
Violence, calamity and the absurdity of war are recorded extensively within The Archive of Modern Conflict, the largest photographic collection of its kind in the world. For their most recent work, Holy Bible, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin mined this archive with philosopher Adi Ophir’s central tenet in mind: that God reveals himself predominantly through catastrophe and that power structures within the Bible correlate with those within modern systems of governance.
The format of Broomberg and Chanarin’s illustrated Holy Bible mimics both the precise structure and the physical form of the King James Version. By allowing elements of the original text to guide their image selection, the artists explore themes of authorship, and the unspoken criteria used to determine acceptable evidence of conflict.
Inspired in part by the annotations and images Bertolt Brecht added to his own personal bible, Broomberg and Chanarin’s publication questions the clichés at play within the visual representation of conflict.
more books by Oliver Chanarin & Adam Broomberg
-
Holy Bible
by Oliver Chanarin & Adam Broomberg
sold -
Black market (ONLY 100 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Oliver Chanarin & Adam Broomberg
sold -
War Primer 2 (ONLY 100 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Oliver Chanarin & Adam Broomberg
sold -
Scarti
by Oliver Chanarin & Adam Broomberg
Euro 75
more books tagged »archives« | >> see all
-
IN BED WITH AN ALIEN KIDNAPPER (Signed and numbered, edt of 20)
by Thibault Tourmente
sold -
Beautiful Pig (NUMBERED AND SIGNED)
by Ben Schonberger
sold -
Voyeur 5
by Hans-Peter Feldmann
sold -
SMAIL (SPECIAL EDITION OF 35)
by Alessandro Bo
sold -
Silent Histories
by Kazuma Obara
Euro 80 -
La maison manquante (Numbered and signed, edt of 100 + 20 AP)
by Christian Boltanski
sold
more books tagged »AMC« | >> see all
-
The cow and the orchid : generic colombian photography
by Collective
sold -
Party. Quitonasto Form Chanmair Mao Tungest
by Cristina de Middel
sold -
Party. Quitonasto Form Chanmair Mao Tungest (SIGNED)
by Cristina de Middel
sold -
JAN MAYEN (SIGNED LTD/100)
by Cristina de Middel
sold
more books tagged »appropriation« | >> see all
-
Dark Shadow (Signed)
by Gilbert & George
sold -
Guevara Shashin Shu Che
by Light of Buenos
sold -
Die Mauer ist weg ! (Signed)
by Mark Power
sold -
Less Américains
by Mishka Henner
sold -
Scissorings
by Koichi Miyazaki
sold -
History Portraits
by Cindy Sherman
Euro 35
more books tagged »first edition« | >> see all
-
Redheaded Peckerwood
by Christian Patterson
sold -
The Hyena & Other Men (Signed 1st EDT)
by Pieter Hugo
Euro 550 -
Before the War (LTD & SIGNED)
by Alejandro Cartagena
sold -
Belleville 1965 (LAST COPIES)
by Jean-Baptiste de Baudouin
Euro 45 -
The Great Masters of Art history with pictures of Jacques Chirac
by Nicolas Giraud
sold -
Images à la sauvette
by Henri Cartier-Bresson
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com