
Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now
- Publisher
- SPBH Editions
- Year
- 2021
- Specifications
- Softcover
10.5 × 15 cm
120 pages
46 illustrations
English
SPBH Essays, volume two
After My Birth in 2017, this is the second collaboration between Carmen Winant and SPBH Editions. The small volume compiles texts by the artist alongside archive pictures and grows out of a talk she gave in September 2020 at the MoMA Contemporary Photo Forum. The short essay asks about the role of pictures that Winant calls "instructional": from dog training and at-home gynaecological examinations to climbing and pottery classes, she tries to understand how each of us reads and uses an iconography that is at once technical and documentary. Going back through her own collection of archive material, Winant reflects on the way the body is represented.