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"This photo volume, 'An Archeology of Fear and Desire' by Frédéric BRENNER is an attempt to recontextualize Israel as place and metaphor, exploring longing, belonging and exclusion. The French photographer follows up his opus 'Diaspora' with a visual essay about Israel, a land of devouring myths in which constructs - social and religious - perpetuate a tyranny of roles, which render us strangers to what is most intimate in ourselves.Content
The photographic essay 'An Archeology of Fear and Desire' by Frédéric BRENNER is an X-ray of an ongoing experiment in survival, portraying the complexity of multiple, dissonant identities. These images question the promise attached to this land and explore the cauldron of fear and shadow within this territory and in each of us, unrecognised, unredeemed, denied, dissimulated and silenced, where the other is instrumentalised and thereby sacrificed.Additional information
An 'Archeology of Fear and Desire' is part of 'This Place' project, initiated by Frédéric BRENNER, which explores the complexity of Israel and the West Bank, as place and metaphor, through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers, consisting of a traveling exhibition, companion publications and a program of live events. In addition to Frédéric BRENNER, the artists participating in the project with the catalog and their own publications were Wendy EWALD, Martin KOLALR, Josef KOUDELKA, Jungjin LEE, Gilles PERESS, Fazal SHEIKH, Stephen SHORE, Rosalind Fox SOLOMON, Thomas STRUTH, Jeff WALL, and Nick WAPLINGTON." (© Mack Books, 2014)
About French photographer, Frédéric BRENNER (b.1959, in Paris)
Photo books by Frédéric BRENNER
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 27 x 2 cm., 72 pp., 37 color ills., text language: English