Archive_Belfast
Claudio Hils
Hatje Cantz
English, German
Edited by Belfast Exposed.
Texts by Anna M. Eifert-Körnig, Klaus Honnef and John Taylor.
Hardcover
120 pages
285 x 285 mm
2004
ISBN 9783775713917
The experience of conflict is deeply embedded in Belfast’s collective consciousness. Evidence of conflict is contained within information archives throughout the city, where photography is employed as a means of interpreting, objectively, the effects of violence. Medical X ray technology registers the body as site of trauma, police forensic photography particularises scenes of crime, surveillance cameras militarises civic space. These archives are extensive, systematically organised, and primarily contingent on use. In contrast private and semi-public stores of conflict-related memorabilia are presently being formulated into official public archives. As collections of objects (uniforms, propaganda) become redundant, they are recontextualised and transformed into historical artefacts. Archive_Belfast observes a history under construction. This book functions as both an exhibition catalogue for Hils’ Archive_Belfast at Belfast Exposed from the 9th of April to 21st of May 2004.
(source: https://www.hatjecantz.de/claudio-hils-1358-1.html)
About the Artist
Claudio Hils (b.1962) is a German photographer. Hils worked for over twenty years for international magazines, which has informed the documentary nature of his work.
claudio-hils.com
(source: https://dfa.photography/en/mitglied/claudio-hils)
About the Publisher
Hatje Cantz is a German book publisher specialising in photography, art, architecture and design. It was established in 1945 by Gerd Hatje and has offices in Stuttgart and Berlin. Hatje Cantz Verlag has a backlist of nearly 800 titles.
hatjecantz.de
