Hijacked Volume 3: British and Australian Photography
Edited by Louise Clements, Mark McPherson and Leigh Robb.
Kehrer Verlag
English
Hardcover
412 pages
267 x 208 mm
2012
ISBN 9783868282856
Hijacked III reverse-engineers and re-presents the ‘photo book’ with a challenging anti-curatorial manifesto where borders are merged or displaced and photography has a forum to keep reinventing itself. A cross-cultural revolution, a voyeuristic pleasure, Hijacked presents a new narrative with psychological investigations and disseminations of how photographers “populate” photographs with performativity, representation, notions of nationhood, globilisation and conceptual reflexivity in regards to the photographic object and medium itself. Metaphysical and poetic photographs – on the precipice of the new, the now and the next artistic nostalgia.
About the Editor
Louise Clements is artistic director of QUAD, a centre for contemporary art, film and new technologies, since 2001, and co-founder and artistic director of FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby, UK, since 2004. Since 1998 she has initiated as independent curator many commissions, publications, mass participation, art, film and photography exhibitions.
(source: https://www.artstation.com/msmcpherson)
Mark McPherson is an artist, art-photography entrepreneur, a contemporary photography book publisher and an Adjunct Lecturer, School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He is the founder of Big City Press, the independent West Australian-based publisher of the Hijacked photographic book series. Hijacked Volume 1 was presented in the Book Awards at the celebrated Rencontres d’Arles festival in France (2009) and received the Photo Book-Award from the Kasseler Fotoforum, Germany in the same year.
(source: https://www.amazon.com/HIJACKED-3-AUSTRALIA-Mark-McPherson/dp/3868282858)
Leigh Robb has been the PICA Curator since September 2009. She moved to Perth from London where she was Associate Director of Thomas Dane Gallery, where she worked with international artists including Steve McQueen, Paul Pfeiffer, Albert Oehlen, Michael Landy.
(source: https://www.amazon.com/HIJACKED-3-AUSTRALIA-Mark-McPherson/dp/3868282858)
About the Publisher
Kehrer Verlag is among the world’s leading publishers of photo books. Founded in 1995 by Klaus Kehrer, it is also one of the few independent publishing houses in Germany. In addition to photography, further focal points include contemporary art, art of the 17th through the 20th centuries, and international sound art. Over the years, numerous Kehrer publications have been nominated for and honoured with international book awards. From 2011 through 2016, Kehrer was also the German partner of the European Publishers Award for Photography (EPAP), an initiative launched by European publishing houses to promote contemporary photography.
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