Ka-boom : The Explosion of Landscape (SPECIAL EDITION - ONLY 30 COPIES WITH PRINTS)
Andrea Botto
Ka-boom : The Explosion of Landscape (SPECIAL EDITION - ONLY 30 COPIES WITH PRINTS)
Photographs: Andrea Botto
Publisher: Editions Bessard
Year: 2017
Price: 500 €
Comments: Hardcover in a slipcase, 270 x 180 mm. First edition, 2017. Special edition limited to 30 copies with 2 numbered and signed prints (one which comes with the regular edition) and a larger one (see picture).
"I started to take pictures of explosions in Italy in 2008, as the global economy went down.
After having worked for long time on demolitions, landslides and other landscape transformations, it was an ideal evolution of my previous research about time, sense of limit and traces of collective memory.
You could say that I work on a sort of “aesthetic of destruction”, but I prefer to consider it as a natural and irreversible entropy." - Andrea Botto.
KA-BOOM is a fictional explosive manual in which sourced vintage photographs encounter staged do-it-yourself explosive construction images, with the photographs Andrea Botto has shot of real non-military explosions. The result is a sophisticated enquiry of photography’s contemporary status, in which numerous questions are raised and no simple answers are given. (…) The project is articulated through a mechanism whereby any notion of the authentic becomes almost impossible allowing the turn-over between fiction, reality and staging to manifest a form of resistance to the idea that the spectacle just is, suggesting criticality and memory as means of opposition. Recalling the structure of Bertold Brecht’s diaries and their use of photography as a form of multi-disciplinary media, capable both of seducing and estranging the viewer-reader, Andrea Botto attempts to transform images in means capable of activating processes of knowledge. (…) The structure of the book cancels any illusion of continuity and pushes the viewer to take a position, to reflect on the images and their development.
- Ilaria Bonacossa, from “Photos as text” in KA-BOOM The Explosion of Landscape
more books by Andrea Botto
-
19.06_26.08.1945. (Signed)
by Andrea Botto
sold -
Ka-boom : The Explosion of Landscape (WITH A SIGNED PRINT)
by Andrea Botto
sold
more books tagged »print« | >> see all
-
I will give you my self portrait (Special Edition with 24 orig...
by Tihomir Stoyanov
Euro 150 -
TRANSPARENCIES: SMALL CAMERA WORKS 1971-1979 (SIGNED)
by Stephen Shore
sold -
Bill Henson (SPECIAL EDITION WITH PRINT)
by Bill Henson
sold -
Divagation - sur les pas de Basho (ONLY 40 COPIES WITH A PRINT)
by Klavdij Sluban
sold -
Eleven Blowups (SPECIAL EDITION WITH PRINT)
by Sophie Ristelhueber
sold -
New York New York (SPECIAL EDT WITH A PRINT)
by Lörinczy György
sold
more books tagged »extremely limited« | >> see all
-
Le Précipice (Edt of 50 with print)
by Jo-ey Tang
sold -
EUROPE JEUNESSE (Signed edt of 20)
by Leif Houllevigue
Euro 40 -
I don't want to disappear completely (ONLY 100 COPIES)
by Bérangère Fromont
sold -
Black market (ONLY 100 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Oliver Chanarin & Adam Broomberg
sold -
Mouth-To-Mouth (EDT OF 20)
by Kingsley Ifill
sold -
Siwah (Special handmade edition of 13)
by Paola Bragado
sold
more books tagged »signed « | >> see all
-
MICTLAN (SPECIAL EDT /100 SIGNED)
by Joan Fontcuberta
sold -
Soi 1 (Signed)
by Kotaro Yokomizo
sold -
Towards the North (SIGNED)
by Daisuke Yokota
sold -
Simmon: a Private Landscape (Signed and numbered /900)
by Eikoh Hosoe
sold -
Snap out of it. (SIGNED)
by Koji Otsuka
Euro 45 -
Suichokujo no, Ryoiki / Perpendicularly,Territory (SIGNED)
by Hitoshi Tsukiji
sold
more books tagged »Editions Bessard« | >> see all
-
The Sea: Time&Movement (Limited Edition 250 Copies + signed C ...
by José Diniz
sold -
SLOW MOTION (SIGNED AND STAMPED)
by Stéphane Duroy
sold -
This Face (SIGNED AND NUMBERED 68/100)
by Xu Yong
Euro 300 -
Dye Your Hair With Kool-Aid (W/ SIGNED PRINT)
by Valerie Phillips
sold -
There is hope but not for us (SIGNED & NUMBERED /500, SIGNED P...
by Vincent Delbrouck
Euro 75 -
YU NA
by Xu Yong
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com