WHATEVER YOU SAY, SAY NOTHING - Gilles Peress
In 1972, at the age of 26, Gilles Peress photographed the massacre of Irish civilians by the British army during Bloody Sunday. In the 1980s, he returned to the north of Ireland, intent on testing the limits of visual language and perception to understand this intractable conflict. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, a work of "documentary fiction", organizes a decade of photographs across 22 fictional "days" to articulate the helical structure of history during a conflict that seemed never to end, where each day became a repetition of all the other days like that day: days of violence, marching, rioting, unemployment, mourning, and also of "craic" where people try to forget their condition.
This ambitious publication pushes the language of documentary photography to the extreme, then challenges readers to stop and solve the puzzle of meaning themselves.
Each copy is accompanied by Annals of the North, a text and image almanac on the theme Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, also published separately by Steidl.
(Two cloth-bound books and a cloth-bound brochure packed in cardboard boxes, in a tote bag).
Published by Steidl, 2021
37.5 x 25.5 cm
1960 pages
ISBN: 978-3-95829-544-5
In 1972, at the age of 26, Gilles Peress photographed the massacre of Irish civilians by the British army during Bloody Sunday. In the 1980s, he returned to the north of Ireland, intent on testing the limits of visual language and perception to understand this intractable conflict. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, a work of "documentary fiction", organizes a decade of photographs across 22 fictional "days" to articulate the helical structure of history during a conflict that seemed never to end, where each day became a repetition of all the other days like that day: days of violence, marching, rioting, unemployment, mourning, and also of "craic" where people try to forget their condition.
This ambitious publication pushes the language of documentary photography to the extreme, then challenges readers to stop and solve the puzzle of meaning themselves.
Each copy is accompanied by Annals of the North, a text and image almanac on the theme Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, also published separately by Steidl.
(Two cloth-bound books and a cloth-bound brochure packed in cardboard boxes, in a tote bag).
Published by Steidl, 2021
37.5 x 25.5 cm
1960 pages
ISBN: 978-3-95829-544-5
In 1972, at the age of 26, Gilles Peress photographed the massacre of Irish civilians by the British army during Bloody Sunday. In the 1980s, he returned to the north of Ireland, intent on testing the limits of visual language and perception to understand this intractable conflict. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, a work of "documentary fiction", organizes a decade of photographs across 22 fictional "days" to articulate the helical structure of history during a conflict that seemed never to end, where each day became a repetition of all the other days like that day: days of violence, marching, rioting, unemployment, mourning, and also of "craic" where people try to forget their condition.
This ambitious publication pushes the language of documentary photography to the extreme, then challenges readers to stop and solve the puzzle of meaning themselves.
Each copy is accompanied by Annals of the North, a text and image almanac on the theme Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, also published separately by Steidl.
(Two cloth-bound books and a cloth-bound brochure packed in cardboard boxes, in a tote bag).
Published by Steidl, 2021
37.5 x 25.5 cm
1960 pages
ISBN: 978-3-95829-544-5