Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now

Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now

Carmen Winant • SPBH Editions

ISBN-10: 1916041248 · ISBN-13: 978‑1916041240 · 2021

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Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now 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? 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.

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