Domesday book : photopoem / Peter Kennard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennard, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photomontage.

Photography, Artistic.

Physical Description:

181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 1999.

Summary:

This book combines poetry, photography and photomontage to create a narrative of our time as we approach the Millennium. Kennard's narrator is a wandering figure who arrives at the Millennium Dome as it is still under construction. In a fragmentary and hallucinatory fashion, the narrator flicks through images of the 20th Century as though seeing the images on a projector. This attempt to find a new form for the photographic book is a creative example of the The Critical Image series, which was commissioned to illustrate the links between photography and power, and to reveal how photography builds a sense of reality and promotes "national interests." As the foremost practitioner of photomontage, Kennard is responsible for expanding and furthering the subject of photography itself.

ISBN:

0719058023

0719058031

OCLC:

43070639