AMC2
Issue 14: Me Nu
Archive of Modern Conflict
English and Mandarin Chinese
Edited by Ruben Lundgren and Timothy Prus
Hardcover
Edition of 300 – Signed
2 books, includes a booklet
32 pages (16 x 2)
230 x 320 mm (each)
2018
This work by Ruben Lundgren and Timothy Prus was produced to coincide with their exhibition “Anything that walks”, held at the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, November 2018.
Like photography itself, a menu explores the nature of taste and style. Sweet, salty, sour, fatty and bitter are all found in this deranged menu. New and unexpected combinations of flavour unhinge the imagination. All the pictures relate to Chinese food culture and are vernacular in the sense that they were not made as art, although the food most certainly was. The time span covered in this menu is the second half of the 20th century. Photographs from food science and agriculture rub shoulders with shots from cooking competitions, cookery books and family photo albums. The highs and especially the lows of Chinese food photography are considered in depth, from the Great Wall of China made of spam to fridge advertising images where even the freezers are stuffed with delicacies. Never mind if you don’t own a restaurant, Me Nu is a must for all lovers of food photography.
(Source: https://archiveofmodernconflict.com/me-nu-ruben-lundgren-and-timothy-prus/)
About the Editors
Ruben Lundgren is a Dutch photographer and curator based in Beijing. He is renowned for his work within the conceptual photography duo WassinkLundgren and gained significant attention with publications such as Empty Bottles (2007) and Tokyo Tokyo (2010). Lundgren completed a master’s degree in photography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2011. His relocation to China has profoundly influenced his career, leading him to engage deeply with Chinese contemporary photography. He currently works as a photojournalist for Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant and as an independent curator of Chinese photography. Together with Martin Parr he co-edited The Chinese Photobook (2015).
https://www.rubenlundgren.com/
(Source: https://www.rubenlundgren.com/about)
Timothy Prus (b. 1959) is an English visual artist and curator of the Archive of Modern Conflict since 1992. He is also an exhibition organiser and a photobook editor. His previous publications include The Whale’s Eyelash (2014), Nein, Onkle (2007), Scrapbook (2009) and The Corinthians (2008). Previous exhibitions include Lodz Ghetto (Muzeum Sztuki, 2005), Collected Shadows (Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, 2013), Notes Homes (FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, 2013), The Great Refusal (2013) and A Guide to the Protection of the Public in Peacetime (Tate Modern, London, 2014).
(Source: https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en/commissaires/view/90/timothy-prus)
About the Magazine
AMC2 Journal is a magazine run by The Archive of Modern Conflict. Issues are published intermittently, each printed in a different format. The magazine was first issued in 2011 and most recently in 2018.
archiveofmodernconflict.com
(Source: https://archiveofmodernconflict.com/about-us/)
About the Publisher
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. They have produced and published over thirty books, often collaborating with photographers and artists such as Stephen Gill, Cristina de Middel, Thomas Mailaender, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, and Don McCullin.
archiveofmodernconflict.com
(Source: https://archiveofmodernconflict.com/about-us/)
