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Broomberg and Chanarin's imagery, coupled with photographs from the Getty Archive in London, makes for an alternative reading experience that teaches young readers to 'listen with their eyes'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49567389155601,"sku":"GOR008621813","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49809543430417,"sku":"CIN1849763674A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51606160867601,"sku":"GOR012068032","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51859672105233,"sku":"GOR014431565","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1849763674.jpg?v=1751123637"},{"product_id":"people-in-trouble-laughing-pushed-to-the-ground-book-adam-broomberg-9781907946042","title":"People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50509308428561,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50509309214993,"sku":"GOR004924618","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1907946047.jpg?v=1751028557"},{"product_id":"spirit-is-a-bone-book-adam-broomberg-9781910164181","title":"Spirit is a Bone","description":"The series of portraits in this book, which include Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevic and many other Moscow citizens, were created by a machine: a facial recognition system recently developed in Moscow for public security and border control surveillance. The result is more akin to a digital life mask than a photograph; a three-dimensional facsimile of the face that can be easily rotated and closely scrutinised.    What is significant about this camera is that it is designed to make portraits without the co-operation of the subject; four lenses operating in tandem to generate a full frontal image of the face, ostensibly looking directly into the camera, even if the subject himself is unaware of being photographed.    The system was designed for facial recognition purposes in crowded areas such as subway stations, railroad stations, stadiums, concert halls or other public areas but also for photographing people who would normally resist being photographed. Indeed any subject encountering this type of camera is rendered passive, because no matter which direction he or she looks, the face is always rendered looking forward and stripped bare of shadows, make-up, disguises or even poise.    Co-opting this device, Broomberg \u0026amp; Chanarin have constructed their own taxonomy of portraits in contemporary Russia. Echoing August Sander's seminal work, Citizens of the Twentieth Century, Broomberg \u0026amp; Chanarin have made a series of portraits cast according to professions. But their portraits are produced with this new technology, with little if any human interaction. They are low resolution and fragmented. The success of these images is determined by how precisely this machine can identify its subject: the characteristics of the nose, the eyes, the chin, and how these three intersect. Nevertheless they cannot help being portraits of individuals, struggling and often failing to negotiate a civil contract with state power.    This book is the result of a series of encounters, interactions and conversations between Broomberg \u0026amp; Chanarin and the photography collections at the Library of Birmingham made possible by a commission from GRAIN and the Library with support from the Arts Council of England.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51382878273809,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51382878568721,"sku":"GOR014249373","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1910164186.jpg?v=1751155800"},{"product_id":"ghetto-book-adam-broomberg-9781904563006","title":"Ghetto","description":"The answers they received to their questions were both revealing and absurd, but with the powerful and dramatic truths that they found, for instance, with Rafael, a patient in the mental asylum in Cuba: \"What are you scared of Rafael?\", \"I'm afraid of the outside\". \"Why?\". \"Because Rafael is there and I don't want to see him\". \"But you are Rafael\". \"Now you understand what I'm scared of\".","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51595712233745,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51595712561425,"sku":"GOR007209270","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1904563007.jpg?v=1751379814"},{"product_id":"divine-violence-book-adam-broomberg-9783959051996","title":"Divine Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo influential photobooks by Adam Broomberg (born 1970) and Oliver Chanarin (born 1971) form the centerpiece of this publication: \u003ci\u003eWar Primer 2\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eHoly Bible\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), both heralded as contemporary classics of the photobook genre and now out of print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth books see Broomberg and Chanarin working with images of violence, war and terror--the unique legacy of the 20th century's intense brutality and boom in photographic media. In both books, Broomberg and Chanarin collaged these charged images (mined from the internet or the Archive of Modern Conflict) in layered stacks on the pages of two already-existing, seminal books: Bertolt Brecht's \u003ci\u003eWar Primer\u003c\/i\u003e (1955) and the King James Bible. Appropriated and fragmentary, arranged in shocking juxtaposition to other images or neighboring texts, the images--and the artists' handling of them--challenge the reader's assumptions, knowledge and viewing habits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Broomberg \/ Oliver Chanarin: Don't Start with the Good Old Things But the Bad New Ones\u003c\/i\u003e brings together these two examples of the artists' exploration of the themes of violence, spectacle and history. 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