War Primer 2 [SIGNED - RARE 2011 LIMITED 1ST EDITION #/100]

Broomberg, Adam; Chanarin, Oliver

Published by Mack, 2011

About this Item

Originally released in 2011 as a limited edition hardback, this book is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and gained Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin the 2013 Deutsche BĂ rse Photography Prize. War Primer 2 appropriates the first English-language version of Bertolt Brecht's remarkable 1955 Kriegsfibel in which Brecht combined press photographs from the World Wars with four-line poems. Compiled intermittently over three decades, Brecht's book was a visual and lyrical attack on war and its propagandists under modern capitalism. Shifting the critique to contemporary narratives perpetuated by the so-called 'War on Terror', Broomberg and Chanarin strategically overlay the pages of Brecht's War Primer with images culled from the internet and generated by the actors, propagators and reporters of the contemporary conflict. SIGNED COPY. MACK, 2011. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Limited to only 100 individually numbered copies of which this is #53/100 SIGNED by both photographers on the front end page. 4to.11.5 x 9.5 inches. Unpaginated with circa 180 pages with color and black and white photographic images throughout. 85 black-and-white photographs printed in offset, each with a new photographic reproduction partially pasted over it by hand. Broomberg & Chanarin, concerned with the proliferation of imagery relating to the 'War on Terror' that began with 9/11, have taken copies of the 1998 first English edition of Brecht's War Primer as the starting point for this revised version. Keeping the original captions intact, they have partially overlaid the original photographs selected by Brecht with contemporary imagery from both sides of the recent conflict drawn from online sources. The URL for each image is provided with a caption in a new set of notes, screenprinted over the originals. Cited in The Photobook: A History III, p285. War Primer 2 is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and was awarded the Deutsche BĂ rse Photography Prize 2013. BOOK CONDITION: Near Fine; a solid, clean copy with black cloth reinforcement along title page gutter (as issued) showing some shallow bends to front cover that are only noticable on the cover verso. Overall a very solid, clean copy of the rare, limited 1st edition. SIGNED.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: War Primer 2 [SIGNED - RARE 2011 LIMITED 1ST EDITION #/100]
• Publisher: Mack
• Publication Date: 2011
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: As new
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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  • Photography