
Walid Raad
Publisher's Description
What is a photographic image? Can
a photograph ever tell the truth?
These are some of the questions
artist Walid Raad (born 1967) has
been investigating for the past
20 years, in a practice that encompasses
photography, film and
video, sculpture, installation and
performance. This publication
brings together three major bodies
of work: the photographic and
video works produced under the
fictional collective name The Atlas
Group; various series of seemingly
“straight” photography of his
native Beirut titled Sweet Talk:
Commissions (Beirut); and his most
recent project, Scratching on Things
I Could Disavow: A History of Art in
the Arab World. The publication
includes an exchange between the
artist and curator Achim Borchardt-
Hume; an essay on conceptions
of truth by poet and writer Alan
Gilbert; a text on Raad’s use of
photography and its ties to Beirut
by Blake Stimson; and an essay
by Hélène Chouteau-Matikian.
ISBN: 0854881859
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery
Paperback : 144 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.3 x 10.5 x 0.5 inches
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Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery
Paperback : 144 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.3 x 10.5 x 0.5 inches