Whatever you say, say nothing / Gilles Peress.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peress, Gilles, photographer, editor, author.

Contributor:

Klatell, Christopher, editor.

Steidl Verlag, publisher.

Class of 1953 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence--Northern Ireland--History--20th century--Pictorial works.

Political violence.

Bloody Sunday, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1972.

Documentary photography--Northern Ireland.

Documentary photography.

Manners and customs.

History.

Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998--Pictorial works.

Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland--Social life and customs--20th century--Pictorial works.

Northern Ireland--Derry.

Genre:

History.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

3 volumes (1960 unnumbered pages, 901 pages) : chiefly illustrations, color maps ; 26 x 20 cm - 26 x 38 cm, in 1 black and white print fabric tote bag (44 x 30 x 20 cm) packed in cardboard boxes

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Gilles Peress : whatever you say, say nothing

Place of Publication:

Göttingen, Germany : Steidl Verlag 2020.

Summary:

In 1972, at the age of 26, Gilles Peress photographed the British Army's massacre of Irish civilians on Bloody Sunday. In the 1980s he returned to the North of Ireland, intent on testing the limits of visual language and perception to understand the intractable conflict. "Whatever You Say, Say Nothing", a work of "documentary fiction," organizes a decade of photographs across 22 fictional "days" to articulate the helicoidal structure of history during a conflict that seemed like it would never end - where each day became a repetition of every other day like that day: days of violence, of marching, of riots, of unemployment, of mourning, and also of "craic" where you try to forget your condition. Held back for 30 years and now eagerly anticipated, this ambitious publication takes the language of documentary photography to its extremes, then challenges the reader to stop and resolve the puzzle of meaning for him or herself. Accompanying each copy is "Annals of the North", a text-and-image almanac to "Whatever You Say, Say Nothing", also published separately by Steidl this season

Contents:

Volume 1. Whatever you say

volume 2. Say nothing

volume 3. Annals of the north / editors, Chris Klatell and Gilles Peress.

Notes:

Volumes 1 and 2 contain entirely photographs by Peress; volume 3, designated as an "almanac", includes essays, stories, photographs, documents, and testimonies by Peress and various authors in relationship to the photographs and experiences expressed in volumes 1 and 2.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

Contains:

Whatever you say

Say nothing

Annals of the North

ISBN:

9783958295445

3958295444

9783958297937

3958297935

OCLC:

1227312029