Description:
Signed and dedicated copy:
Sometimes documentary photography is less about the literal reportage of an event and instead offers a broader perspective that puts into context less easily photographable issues. By stepping back and taking a more experimental approach, Magnum photographer Mark Power, along with his friend and collaborator, the poet Daniel Cockrill, caught the mood of England on the brink of change. Their publishing project — a quirky mash-up of text and 5”x4” film photography — began in a 2006 pre-Brexit time and the title, Destroying The Laboratory For The Sake Of The Experiment now seems, in Power’s words, “oddly prophetic.”
Initially looking at the seedlings of growing English nationalism, the pair followed a path through the financial crash of 2008 and the fall-out that would eventually create an atmosphere where Brexit was possible. Uniting poetry and photography — and later the design and branding of Dominic Brookman — they riffed off each other’s work. Here, Mark Power and Daniel Cockrill explain the ways in which this collaborative project enhanced their own practices.
Publication Date: 2016
Publisher: Globtik Books
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 250 x 160mm
Pages: 228
Format: Hardback with foldout jacket
ISBN: 978–0–9930830–1–3
Description:
Signed and dedicated copy:
Sometimes documentary photography is less about the literal reportage of an event and instead offers a broader perspective that puts into context less easily photographable issues. By stepping back and taking a more experimental approach, Magnum photographer Mark Power, along with his friend and collaborator, the poet Daniel Cockrill, caught the mood of England on the brink of change. Their publishing project — a quirky mash-up of text and 5”x4” film photography — began in a 2006 pre-Brexit time and the title, Destroying The Laboratory For The Sake Of The Experiment now seems, in Power’s words, “oddly prophetic.”
Initially looking at the seedlings of growing English nationalism, the pair followed a path through the financial crash of 2008 and the fall-out that would eventually create an atmosphere where Brexit was possible. Uniting poetry and photography — and later the design and branding of Dominic Brookman — they riffed off each other’s work. Here, Mark Power and Daniel Cockrill explain the ways in which this collaborative project enhanced their own practices.
Publication Date: 2016
Publisher: Globtik Books
Condition: Very Good
Book Size: 250 x 160mm
Pages: 228
Format: Hardback with foldout jacket
ISBN: 978–0–9930830–1–3