Peer to Peer
Hannah Whitaker
Mörel Books
English
Text by Aaron Kunin.
Hardcover
Edition of 1000
100 pages
300 x 250 mm
2015
ISBN 9781907071515
Hannah Whitaker explores how photographs can network, participate in systems, iterate, and form relationships. The book alternates between one full-page photograph and up to four on the next page that relate to the first. By adhering to this organising principle and by employing repetitive marks made through in-camera masking, the photographs assert a linearity more typical of text than image. The cover spells out the book’s title and author using an illegible alphabet, which, inverting the logic of the photographs, asks to be looked at rather than read. Peer to Peer includes an accompanying text insert written by Aaron Kunin.
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About the Artist
Born in 1980 Hannah Whitaker is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from the ICP/Bard College.
She has published monographs with Mörel Books (London) and Image Text Ithaca Press (Ithaca, NY). Selected press includes The New Yorker, Frieze, Modern Painters, Los Angeles Times, Hotshoe, Libération, and Art Review, artpress, IMA, among others
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About the Publisher
MÖREL (founded in 2008/2009) specialises in publishing works by both established and emerging artists. MÖREL views the book as an important aspect of an artist’s practice and as a powerful cultural conduit.
Approaching each project as a collaboration, MÖREL actively engages with artists throughout the conception, editing, and design phases. The goal is to craft an artist’s book that embraces idiosyncrasies, deliberately steering away from the conventions of traditional publisher-produced books.
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