Edited by Ekaterina Alvarez, Maria Minera. Text by Luigi Amara, Michel Blancsubé, Sarah Demeuse, Rubén Gallo, Veronica Gerber, Claudio Isaac, Lorena Marron, Tom McDonough, Dieter Roelstraete, Ivan Ruiz.
In 2003, Mexican artist Iñaki Bonillas (born 1981) began to incorporate his grandfather’s photographic archive into his own work. This volume assembles various theoretical and literary digressions by writers, philosophers and poets, on 20 of the works that Bonillas has generated through the archive.
Featured image is reproduced from Iñaki Bonillas: J. R. Plaza Archive.
"There is, in the act of inventing and deforming oneself before the camera (or through writing, for that matter), a playful component that, deep down, bares the autobiographer’s personality with more determination than a fatuously confessional image. But come to think of it, in photography, the only possible autobiographical genre is fiction: to prepare the camera, in solitude, for the shot, and to freeze one’s position before the lens, implies a production of the personality in which there is no place for the ingenuousness of the genuine. Yet even so, the result is genuine, disturbingly."
Excerpt is from Iñaki Bonillas: J. R. Plaza Archive.
FORMAT: Hbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 126 pgs / 20 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $29.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $39.95 ISBN: 9783037642474 PUBLISHER: JRP|Ringier AVAILABLE: 8/31/2012 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR ME
Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited by Ekaterina Alvarez, Maria Minera. Text by Luigi Amara, Michel Blancsubé, Sarah Demeuse, Rubén Gallo, Veronica Gerber, Claudio Isaac, Lorena Marron, Tom McDonough, Dieter Roelstraete, Ivan Ruiz.
In 2003, Mexican artist Iñaki Bonillas (born 1981) began to incorporate his grandfather’s photographic archive into his own work. This volume assembles various theoretical and literary digressions by writers, philosophers and poets, on 20 of the works that Bonillas has generated through the archive.
