Eric Lesdema’s photographic series Fortunes of War was awarded the UN Nikon World Prize in 1997. Originally a series of fifteen images, this extended edit includes 83 colour photos, accompanied by a series of essays by leading academics in the field. The essays explore ideas raised by the prescient nature of the work, offering a highly original and engaging debate about its alternative approach to documentary photography, which views photography as an alternate space with the potential to project events rather than record them. In exploring an approach that cuts against the traditional concept central to documentary photography since its inception, the book thus raises important questions about twenty-first century interpretations and applications of photography and media. With thought-provoking research and a diverse array of essay contributions, Fortunes of War proposes new lines of interdisciplinary investigation, reflection and inquiry.
Nikon Award info: https://www.artimage.org.uk/artists/l/eric-lesdema/
Spis treści
FROM THE SERIES EDITOR TO THE READER: The Immateriality of Culture
ALFREDO CRAMEROTTI
What’s in a Day?
ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOS
Right on Target
JAN BAETENS
A Visual Historiography
JANE TORMEY
A Reading, in Retrospection
NICOLETTE BARSDORF-LIEBCHEN
‘… Pro Foro Mori’
GERALD MOORE
Unstuck: ‘War Artists Without A War’
PAUL GOUGH
‘Closed for Judging’: The Just Emplacement of Eric Lesdema
ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOS
The Practitioner in Alter Space
ERIC LESDEMA
About the Contributors
O autorze
Eric Lesdema was awarded the UN Nikon World Prize for photography in 1997 for his inaugural body of photographic work, Fortunes of War. Lesdema has lectured and exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally. His work is held in several collections including the Contemporary Art Society and is showcased by DACS, Artimage, https://artimage.org.uk/artists/l/eric-lesdema/. Lesdema has undertaken photography, film, installation and text commissions for key national and international institutions including MKG, Lux, London and Photoworks, UK. In 2002 he received an International Fellowship from the British Council and Arts Council. Since 2002 he has co-directed and co-developed an experimental, innovative nomadic Media Arts Foundation course, most recently with UAL. He lives in Cardiff, Wales.