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.










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