Troubled land / photographs by Paul Graham ; text, Paul Graham, Declan McGonagle.

Main entry:

Troubled land (MACK)

Title & Author:

Troubled land / photographs by Paul Graham ; text, Paul Graham, Declan McGonagle.

Publication:

[London] : MACK, [2022]
©2022

Description:

28 unnumbered pages, 32 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm

Notes:
Chielfy illustrated.
Originally published: London: Grey Editions, 1987.

Summary:

An iconic project made at the height of the 'Troubles', Troubled Land deals with the small but insistent signs of political division embedded in the landscape of Northern Ireland. At the heart of the Irish conflict lays the land -- who owns it, who controls it, whose history it expresses. Paul Graham's quietly radical book keeps this material truth in mind as it uniquely combines landscape and conflict photography, seducing us with bucolic views in which telling details only gradually appear: painted kerbs, distant soldiers or helicopters, flags and graffiti, paint-splattered roads, each tacitly aligning that location to its Republican or Loyalist allegiance. Pastoral photographs of green fields and hedgerows reveal themselves to be images of conflict and dispute -- despite the steadiness of the photographic frame and the clarity of Graham's vision, this is unsettled land. Originally published in 1986, Troubled Land is reprinted here for the first time in thirty-five years. Controversial then for its use of colour and refusal to follow the clichéd tropes of photojournalism, the book was pivotal in providing a fresh perspective on Northern Ireland's 'Troubles' and left a lasting impact on landscape photography, suggesting how it might engage with politics and society rather than escape from them. Together with A1 - The Great North Road and Beyond Caring, it completes a new edition of the remarkable trilogy of books Graham made in 1980s UK.

ISBN:

1913620603
9781913620608

Subject:

Graham, Paul, 1956-
Graham, Paul,
Landscape photography Northern Ireland.
Photographie de paysages Irlande du Nord.
Cloth bindings (Binding) England 21st century.
Publishers' bindings (Bindings) England 21st century.
Onlays (Binding) England 21st century.
Landscape photography
Northern Ireland Pictorial works.
Northern Ireland.

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks
Pictorial works
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

McGonagle, Declan, writer of added commentary.
Graham, Paul, 1956- writer of added commentary.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 315658
Call No.: 315658
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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