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DONOVAN WYLIE OUTPOSTS

English, German · Paperback / Softback

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Zusammenfassung Outposts / Kandahar Province presents Donovan Wylie's photographs of Forward Operating Bases constructed in theKandahar Province of Afghanistan. From 2006 to 2011! Canada sent nearly 3!000 military personnel to Afghanistan insupport of NATO's International Security Assistance Force. Serving alongside infantry and artillery! military engineersdesigned a network of outposts throughout the province. Built on natural promontories with multiple lines of sight! theseoutposts formed a protective visual architecture. They were frequently positioned on defensive locations established duringearlier conflicts and represent reincarnations of past histories under new powers. The resulting images are the latestphase in Wylie's interrogation of the architecture of modern conflict. The work was made on behalf of the Imperial WarMuseum in London and with generous support from the Bradford Fellowship in Photography.Donovan Wylie was born in Belfast in 1971! where he currently teaches at the University of Ulster. Wylie is a memberof Magnum Photos and his work is in major public and private collections. Steidl has published Wylie's British Watchtowers(2007)! Scrapbook (2009) and Maze (2009).Exhibitions: National Museum of Photography! Film and Television! Bradford! 30 September 2011 to 19 February 2012;Le Bal! Paris! 16 September to 18 December 2011; Imperial War Museum! London! 2012

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Authors Gerry Badger, Donavan Wylie, Donovan Wylie, Wylie Donovan
Publisher Steidl Druckerei und Verlag
 
Languages English, German
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.09.2011
 
EAN 9783869303215
ISBN 978-3-86930-321-5
Dimensions 295 mm x 235 mm x 10 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV
Social sciences, law, business

Fotografie, Computerkunst

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