{"title":"Gilles Peress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGilles Peress\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of contemporary history through powerful photographic narratives. His work delves into complex social and political landscapes, capturing moments of conflict and change with a thoughtful, unflinching eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect evocative visual storytelling that blends artistry with documentary truth, inviting reflection on the human condition within turbulent environments. This collection is a profound journey into the heart of modern society’s challenges, framed by a distinguished voice in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"gilles-peress-and-chris-klatell-annals-of-the-north-by-gilles-peress-9783958297937","title":"Gilles Peress and Chris Klatell: Annals of the North","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn almanac to the world of \u003ci\u003eWhatever You Say, Say Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e by Gilles Peress, also published by Steidl this season, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of the North\u003c\/i\u003e combines essays, stories, photographs, documents and testimonies to open up for the reader the complicated and contradictory storylines that emerged from the conflict in the North of Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeighed down by 800 years of colonisation but only the size of Connecticut (with half its population), the North provides a remarkably intimate stage set. Interweaving text and image, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of the North\u003c\/i\u003e examines the multifaceted struggle between Irish Republicans \/ Nationalists, Protestant Unionists \/ Loyalists, and the imperial British to explore broader themes of empire, retribution, and betrayal, as well as the tense dialectic between the ordinary demands of everyday life and intense, periodic explosions of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWide-ranging yet deeply personal and political, alternately dense and humorous, legal and literary, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of the North\u003c\/i\u003e is an almanac, not an academic history of the North of Ireland, offering a multiplicity of entry points into the North, and, by extension, into the geopolitics of the twentieth century and their impact on the people trapped in the gears of the machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnnals of the North\u003c\/i\u003e is about a time and a place, and about a group of people—friends, families, victims, soldiers, lovers, thinkers and spies—but it is also a book about another book. - Gilles Peress and Chris Klatell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430801785068,"sku":"9783958297937","price":160.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958297937.jpg?v=1774558547"},{"product_id":"gilles-peress-whatever-you-say-say-nothing-by-gilles-peress-9783958295445","title":"Gilles Peress: Whatever You Say, Say Nothing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The Photographer's Gallery's Photography Foundation Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1972, at the age of 26, Gilles Peress photographed the British Army's massacre of Irish civilians on Bloody Sunday. In the 1980s, he returned to the North of Ireland, intent on testing the limits of visual language and perception to understand the intractable conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhatever You Say, Say Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e, a work of \"documentary fiction,\" organises a decade of photographs across 22 fictional \"days\" to articulate the helicoidal structure of history during a conflict that seemed like it would never end—where each day became a repetition of every other day like that day: days of violence, of marching, of riots, of unemployment, of mourning, and also of \"craic,\" where you try to forget your condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHeld back for 30 years and now eagerly anticipated, this ambitious publication takes the language of documentary photography to its extremes, then challenges the reader to stop and resolve the puzzle of meaning for him or herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach copy is accompanied by \u003cem\u003eAnnals of the North\u003c\/em\u003e, a text-and-image almanac to \u003cem\u003eWhatever You Say, Say Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e, also published separately by Steidl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430802931948,"sku":"9783958295445","price":2660.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958295445.jpg?v=1774527795"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/gilles-peress.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}