TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mosse, Richard
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - Infra
ET  - 1. ed.
CY  - New York
KW  - Photography, Artistic
KW  - Infrared photography
KW  - Photojournalism
KW  - Congo (Democratic Republic)
KW  - War and society
AB  - "Infra, Richard Mosse's first book, offers a radical rethinking of how to depict a conflict as complex and intractable as the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mosse depicts the rich topography, inscribed with the traces of conflicting interests, as well as rebel groups of constantly shifting allegiances at war with the Congolese national army (itself a patchwork of recently integrated warlords and their militias). For centuries, the Congo has repeatedly compelled and defied the Western imagination. Mosse brings to this subject the use of a type of color infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. Originally developed for military reconnaissance and now discontinued, it registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink. The results offer a fevered inflation of traditional reportage, underlining the growing tension between art, fiction, and photojournalism. Mosse's work highlights the ineffable nature of current events in today's Congo. Infra's photographic dialogue begins as an intoxicating meditation on a broken genre, but ends as a haunting elegy for a vividly beautiful land touched by unspeakable tragedy."--Publisher's website
SN  - 9781597112024
LA  - English
N1  - photographs by Richard Mosse. With an essay by Adam Hochschild
ID  - 689243286
ER  -