82
David Thomson
Archive of Modern Conflict
English
Hardcover
First Edition
2 books in cardboard slipcase
314 pages (157 x 2)
260 x 285 mm (each)
2013
ISBN 9780957049048
The title of this two-volume set gives little clue to the content beyond the fact that 82 photos are included in each volume. Like some bureaucratic code, it marks but does not describe. All the images included in the two volumes date from WWII, and none were taken by professional photographers. In the back of each volume, the images are exhibited at their actual size, like specimens, showing both front and back sides. In the front sections, meanwhile, the same images are enlarged, and we can travel inside them.
The edit is like a guidebook to the stratified emotions that exist in our warlike nature. Volume 1 gives us a fleeting glance at the temporal nature of material culture as it rides alongside unfolding conflict. Volume 2 draws on the human cost. 82 is like no other narrative you will have seen before and is so layered that no amount of analysis will end in a firm conclusion.
(Source: https://archiveofmodernconflict.com/82/)
About the Artist
David Thomson is a Canadian collector with a passion for art and photography.
(Source: https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/amc-publishing-morel-books-david-thomson-dry-hole-dv/)
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.
https://archiveofmodernconflict.com
(Source: https://archiveofmodernconflict.com/about-us/)
