Richard Mosse 'Incoming' Mack 2017 1st edition

Description: "Richard Mosse’s new video and artist’s book, Incoming, explores the continuing tragedy of migrants attempting to cross European borders. Mosse and his collaborators adapted a weapons-grade thermal imaging camera, normally used in battlefield surveillance, reconnaissance, and ballistics targeting, which can detect human bodies from more than 30km away. The resulting three-screen video installation was produced with cinematographer Trevor Tweeten and composer Ben Frost who created a soundscape of electronic drones and field recordings. Filmed in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, Mosse describes how the camera creates ‘aesthetic violence, dehumanising the subject, a technology that is designed for our governments that is used against the refugees‚’. The question is, does Mosse successfully appropriate this military apparatus to critically challenge the powerful gaze of an increasingly exclusionary Europe? The square format book contains a series of 600 monochrome images from the thermographic camera which renders people as gray, eerie, ghost-like figures in various stages of their migratory journeys. Trucks overloaded with human cargo cross the Sahara Desert and equally overloaded migrant boats are filmed being rescued in the Mediterranean. It also includes stills of border imaging technologies and the apparatus of war – soldiers load missiles on a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, a reference to powerful nations colonial adventures, often a catalyst for forced migration. The ambiguity and abstract quality of images in the book sit in stark contrast to humanist documentary photography normally associated with refugees and asylum seekers." The book is in generally very good condition with light signs of use and shelf wear including a very slight catch mark at the top of the first section of pages - see the last photo

Price: 65.95 GBP

Location: Exeter, Devon

End Time: 2025-01-08T14:58:25.000Z

Shipping Cost: 27.68 GBP