War primer 2:

Originally released in 2011 as a limited edition hardback, this paperback edition is a facsimile of the book which earned Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin the 2013 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. War Primer 2 appropriates the first English-language version of Bertolt Brecht's remarkable 195...

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Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Mack 2018
Ausgabe:Paperback edition
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Zusammenfassung:Originally released in 2011 as a limited edition hardback, this paperback edition is a facsimile of the book which earned Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin the 2013 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. War Primer 2 appropriates the first English-language version of Bertolt Brecht's remarkable 1955 Kriegsfibel in which Brecht combined press photographs from the World Wars with four-line poems. Compiled intermittently over three decades, Brecht's book was a visual and lyrical attack on war and its propagandists under modern capitalism. Shifting the critique to contemporary narratives perpetuated by the so-called 'War on Terror', Broomberg and Chanarin strategically overlay the pages of Brecht's War Primer with images culled from the internet and generated by the actors, propagators and reporters of the contemporary conflict. Underlying this junction of two visual histories is a profound skepticism of mass media images. War Primer notably drew attention to the didactic role of photojournalism that served war's callous profiteers. The title deliberately recalled textbooks used to teach primary school children how to read, and the book, which used razor-sharp words to dismantle visual messages, effectively served as a manual, demonstrating how to "read" or "translate" press photographs – images that Brecht referred to as hieroglyphics in need of decoding. (Verlag)
Beschreibung:7 ungezählte Seiten, 85 Blätter, XXIV Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781912339143

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