Matthew Porter’s New Photography Book: Archipelago
Sep. 9, 2015
Archipelago is a journey into an interior, upriver, towards an enigmatic hinterland. At any one instance, Matthew Porter sets up correlations between disparate images, configured on each page like islands in an archipelago, clusters which form their own, indigenous subjects. Short texts, placed at intervals, reveal the connective tissue binding varied subjects – Jane Fonda and the Vietnam War, the Hawaiian Island of Kaua’i and Hollywood. What interests Porter is the legacy of the photographic image, and its capacity reach across history, to make intelligible to us what we already know, or, encountered at the right moment, that which we could not otherwise know.
There will be a book signing in LA on Saturday, May 2nd at 4pm at the Paramount Pictures Studios N.Y. Street, Stand F03.
Source: Mack