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DISCOURSE
is a series of small books in which a cultural theorist, curator or
artist explores a theme, an artwork or an idea in an extended
illustrated text.
This bundle
includes: 'Migrant Mother, Migrant Gender' by Sally Stein [001], 'An
Interview with Lewis Baltz by Duncan Forbes' [002], 'The Parameters of
Our Cage by C. Fausto Cabrera & Alec Soth' [003] and 'Photography's
Neoliberal Realism' by Jörg Colberg [004]
Content of single book titles
'Migrant
Mother, Migrant Gender' by Sally Stein [001]: Sally Stein reconsiders
Dorothea LANGE’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of
family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and
proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact be seen as a disruptive
image of women’s conflictual relation to home, and the world.
'An
Interview with Lewis Baltz by Duncan Forbes' [002]: In this
never-before-published interview from 1972, Lewis BALTZ makes his first
considered statement about photography; a penetrating exploration of the
character of his practice in which Lewis BALTZ articulates his position
within and against the world of photography, and comments on his
intellectual heritage and professional ambition.
'The
Parameters of Our Cage' by C. Fausto Cabrera & Alec Soth [003]: In
January 2020, Alec SOTH received a letter from Chris Fausto Cabrera, an
inmate of the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Rush City, in which he
asked the photographer to engage in a dialogue. This sparked an
expansive and insightful correspondence over the following nine months
which, set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives
Matter Movement and growing unrest, reaches to the heart of contemporary
America.
'Photography's
Neoliberal Realism' by Jörg Colberg [004]: Confronting the work of
widely celebrated photographers Annie LEIBOWITZ, Gregory CREWDSON and
Andreas GURSKY, 'Photography’s Neoliberal Realism' examines how these
artists produce capitalism’s equivalent of the Soviet Union’s socialist
realism by giving photographic form to widely held and rarely questioned
beliefs and ideas.
About participating photographers and authors
Dorothea LANGE
Sally Stein
Lewis BALTZ
Duncan Forbes
Alec SOTH
Jörg Colberg
Annie LEIBOWITZ
Gregory CREWDSON
Andreas GURSKY
Photo books by participating photographers and authors
Dorothea LANGE
Sally Stein
Lewis BALTZ
Duncan Forbes
Alec SOTH
Jörg Colberg
Annie LEIBOWITZ
Gregory CREWDSON
Andreas GURSKY