Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now
<p><em>Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now</em> is a timely visual essay by artist and writer Carmen Winant. An investigation of a genre of photographs Winant calls ‘instructional’, it asks: can photographs teach, in and of themselves? If so, how might we look to them to demonstrate new possibilities, from social organising to self-actualisation?</p> <p>Alternating between found images and text-based observations, Winant delves into this new category of images through her own collection. Winant queries how each image behaves as a small mirror, arguing for the primacy of photographs to instruct and impart both technical and ontological knowledge.</p>
Authors: Carmen Winant
Editors: Bruno Ceschel, Tom Ridgway
Designer: Brian Paul Lamotte
Manager: Hannah Dunsmore
Part of: SPBH Editions