Drive Beirut
Richard Mosse
Origin: Static Issue 03
Content: Photographs + Commentary
Along the top of each of these images taken on the streets of the
Lebanese capital Beirut are words compiled by the photographer in
interviews with women on the city's seafront. The words are some
of the names that the women said they like to be called by their
husbands and boyfriends.
"Richard Mosse engages with the histories of Beirut
and its photographic representation. The series acknowledges the
image/imagined history of the city and constantly walks away from
it. The logic of the war-image is defied and the conventions of
representation are ignored: Mosse turns “Beirut,”
the emblem, the symbol, the paradigmatic sign, back into Beirut,
a city in time, populated by people who might or might not have
any connection with its bloody history, people who look back to
the camera, who look at the camera ."
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Contributors:
Richard Mosse is an award-winning
photographer whose work has been exhibited widely on the Internet
and in Ireland, Palestine and the UK. He is a graduate of the
London Consortium. He may be contacted at info@richardmosse.com.
Noam Leshem, who wrote the commentary
that accompanies this series of photographs, is a doctoral candidate
researching spatial history in Israel and Palestine at the London
Consortium.
Associated Link:
http://www.richardmosse.com
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