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Holy Bible
Broomberg and Chanarin

Holy Bible
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
MACK (Co-published with AMC Books)

Epilogue by Adi Ophir

 

Hardcover (Signed by Broomberg and Chanarin)
768 Pages
162 x 216mm
2013
ISBN 9781907946417

 

Violence, calamity and the absurdity of war are recorded extensively within The Archive of Modern Conflict, the largest photographic collection of its kind in the world. For their most recent work, Holy Bible, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin mined this archive with philosopher Adi Ophir’s central tenet in mind: that God reveals himself predominantly through catastrophe and that power structures within the Bible correlate with those within modern systems of governance. The format of Broomberg and Chanarin’s illustrated Holy Bible mimics both the precise structure and the physical form of the King James Version. By allowing elements of the original text to guide their image selection, the artists explore themes of authorship, and the unspoken criteria used to determine acceptable evidence of conflict. Inspired in part by the annotations and images Bertolt Brecht added to his own personal bible, Broomberg and Chanarin’s publication questions the clichés at play within the visual representation of conflict.

About the Artists
Broomberg and Chanarin is made up of artists, Adam Broomberg (b. 1970) and Oliver Chanarin (b. 1971) who live and work in London. Together they have had numerous international exhibitions. Their work is represented in major public and private collections. They were awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for their book War Primer 2, described as a “book that physically inhabits the pages of Bertolt Brecht’s remarkable 1955 publication War Primer.” They were awarded the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for their publication, Holy Bible. Broomberg and Chanarin founded the imprint Chopped Liver Press to publish and sell their own books as well as those by other artists.
broombergchanarin.com

About the Publishers
MACK is an independent art and photography publishing house based in London. Mack works with established and emerging artists, writers and curators, and cultural institutions, releasing between 20-25 books per year. The publisher was founded in 2010 in London by Michael Mack.
mackbooks.co.uk

The Archive of Modern Conflict is an organisation dedicated to the collection and preservation of vernacular photographs, objects, artefacts, curiosities, and ephemera. Founded in 1991, the archive began as a collection of photographs relating to war and conflict but has since expanded its remit to become the vast and thematically diverse repository it is today.
archiveofmodernconflict.com

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