Main entry:

Mosse, Richard, photographer, writer of supplementary textual content.

Title & Author:

Incoming / Richard Mosse.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[London] : Mack, [2017]
©2017

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes essays by Richard Mosse and Giorgio Agamben.
The book includes film stills from "Incoming" by Richard Mosse, a three screen video installation, 52 minutes, 10 seconds, with sourround sound. The video work documents the journeys made by refugees and migrants across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. The images are taken with a military camera designed to detect the human body from a distance of 30 km. The installation was commissioned by the Barbican Art Gallery and can be seen there from February 15 to April 23, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references.
Biopolitics and the rights of man / Giorgio Agamben -- Transmigration of the souls / Richard Mosse.

Summary:

The major humanitarian and political issue of our time is migration and with his latest video work, Irish artist Richard Mosse has created a searing, haunting and unique artwork. Projected across three 8 meter wide screens, the film is accompanied by a loud dissonant soundtrack to create an overwhelming, immersive experience. Moving from footage of a live battle inside Syria, in which a US aircraft strafes Daesh positions on the ground, to a scene showing pathologists extracting DNA from the bones of unidentified corpses of refugees drowned off the Aegean island of Leros, the film opens a testimonial space of historical document bearing witness to significant chapters in recent events mediated through an advanced weapons-grade camera technology. Narratives of the journeys made by refugees and migrants across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, are captured using an extremely powerful thermal camera not generally available to the public. This super-telephoto military camera can perceive the human body beyond 50km day or night, reading the biological trace of human life. The camera translates the world into a heat signature of apparent temperature difference, producing a dazzling monochrome halo-image which alludes literally and metaphorically to hypothermia, climate change, weapons targeting, border surveillance, xenophobia, and the bare life of stateless people.

ISBN:

9781910164778 (paperback)
1910164771 (paperback)

Subject:

Mosse, Richard 1980-
Refugees Middle East Social conditions Pictorial works.
Refugees Mediterranean Region Social conditions Pictorial works.
Video installations (Art) England London.
Installations vidéo (Art) Angleterre Londres.
Refugees Social conditions
Video installations (Art)
Bürgerkrieg
Dokumentarfotografie
Flucht
Flüchtling
Thermografie
Video-Installation
Documentary photography.
War photography Exhibitions.
Environmental refugees Pictorial works.
Photographers Ireland.
Photography.
England London
Mediterranean Region
Middle East

Form/genre:

film stills.
documentary photographs.
photobooks.
Photobooks
Documentary photographs
Pictorial works
Photographies documentaires.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- writer of supplementary textual content.
Barbican Art Gallery, host institution.
MACK (Publishing firm), publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295535
Call No.: BIB 241760
Status: Available