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War Primer 2
Broomberg and Chanarin

War Primer 2
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
MACK

 

Softcover
200 pages
240 x 290mm
2018
ISBN 9781912339143

 

Originally released in 2011 as a limited edition hardback, this paperback edition is a facsimile of the book which earned Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin the 2013 Deutsche Börse 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.

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

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