Dark Matter : Monogram 1

Ghent / Paris: Monogram, 2022.
Condition: Fine
Softcover
First Edition
21 x 26 cm, 64pp, ills. color, double pamphlet stitch binding
500 copies

In Dark Matter, Ron Jude revisits the source material taken from photographs in his hometown newspaper in Central Idaho in the American West. In this new body of work, Jude reimagines how these photographs can be configured to reflect this microcosm’s collective mood and values. Motivated by a sense of unease and bewilderment with the cultural bifurcation of America, and grounded in a sense of tragedy, loss, and rage, Jude uses a looping tempo of images to surface the latent underpinnings of this mood, located in the helplessness and corresponding desire for control that stutter throughout the sequence. Consistent with themes found in his previous book Alpine Star, Dark Matter is at once a self-reflexive meditation on how cultural context shapes one’s sense of self, and an examination of the way in which photography, as a mass-medium, both mirrors and reinforces shared perceptions and attitudes. Dark Matter is the premiere publication of Monogram founded by Ashley Helvey and Jurgen Maelfeyt as platform for new ideas in publishing photography. Produced in a limited edition of only 500 copies and sold exclusively in a handful of selected bookstores across the world. Dashwood will have them exclusively for the US. Item #24414

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Dark Matter : Monogram 1. Ron Jude.
Dark Matter : Monogram 1. Ron Jude.
Dark Matter : Monogram 1. Ron Jude.
Dark Matter : Monogram 1. Ron Jude.