{"title":"Adam Broomberg","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"war-primer-2","title":"War Primer 2","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the defining artist's books of the twenty-first century, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWar Primer 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e sees Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin revisit Bertolt Brecht's landmark \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWar Primer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1955) for the age of digital media. Brecht's original paired press photographs from the Second World War with sharp four-line poems, revealing how images shape public understanding of war and teaching readers to look beyond their apparent documentary truth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRather than simply updating Brecht's project, Broomberg and Chanarin shift their focus to the so-called \"War on Terror.\" They overlay the pages of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWar Primer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with photographs and video stills drawn from the internet (produced by soldiers, journalists, propagandists, and civilians) to create a dialogue between two eras of conflict. Images of the Twin Towers attacks, the execution of Saddam Hussein, and the presidency of George W. Bush intersect with Brecht's poems and wartime photographs, revealing enduring patterns in the circulation and political use of violence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoth books question the authority of photographic images. If Brecht saw the press photograph as something to be deciphered, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWar Primer 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e asks what happens when images (instantly shared and endlessly reproduced) shape history as much as they record it. First published in 2011, the work remains a compelling reflection on the power of images in an age of digital media, misinformation, and fake news.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"metabooks-dev","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53679744745811,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/WarPrimer.png?v=1781706729"},{"product_id":"spirit-is-a-bone","title":"Spirit is a Bone","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s project is inspired in both form and concept by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCitizens of the Twentieth Century: 1892–1952\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, August Sander’s monumental typology of twentieth-century German society, comprising 431 portraits arranged according to social class and profession. Sander’s book is a seminal photographic inquiry that, tacitly and almost inadvertently, came to trace, among others, the rise of fascism in Germany.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt a moment marked by constant political upheaval and the resurgence of imperialist ideologies, Broomberg \u0026amp; Chanarin created a collection of portraits using a Moscow-developed facial recognition system originally designed for surveillance and border control. Rather than producing conventional photographs, the technology generates digital \"life masks.\" Echoing Sander’s project, the artists organized contemporary Russian subjects according to their professions, while allowing the machine to produce the images. The resulting portraits are low-resolution and fragmented, their appearance determined by the system’s own ability to map facial features such as the nose, eyes, and chin. Despite this automated process, the portraits still reveal the people behind the images and their complex relationship with state power. For instance, recognisable figures such as Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCommissioned by GRAIN with support from Arts Council England, the book is the outcome of artists’ engagement with the Library of Birmingham’s photography collections.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54055669465427,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Spirit.png?v=1782030028"},{"product_id":"holy-bible","title":"Holy Bible","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the most remarkable acts of appropriation of the 2010s, this publication finds an uncanny resonance in the troubled times in which we live. Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s “Holy Bible” is at once historical and prophetic, narrative and absurd, iconophilic and iconoclastic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy pairing the “Book of Books” with images drawn from the Archive of Modern Conflict (a major London-based photographic collection documenting war and disaster), the artists expose the mechanisms of violence in the age of mechanical and digital reproduction. The selected photographs pierce the veil of the sacred text, infusing it with an unsettling contemporary afterlife. Faithfully mirroring the format of the King James Version, the publication interweaves biblical passages with carefully selected images to interrogate authorship, the evidentiary status of photographs, and the persistence of visual clichés. Inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s annotated Bible, it also reproduces, at intervals, underlined passages, extending the dialogue between religion, history, and the politics of representation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough their iconographic study of contemporary violence, Brommberg and Chanarin literally wrote a new (and perhaps final) testament.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54207927943507,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/HolyBibleAdam.png?v=1783259687"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/adam-broomberg.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}