Images for the End of the Century
By Peter Kennard

Afterword by Peter Kennard
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   Our world contains terrible equations. One billion dollars, the cost of twenty modern military planes, equals what it would cost to control the illness killing eleven million children annually in the developing world. The single click of a camera shutter cannot picture this connection, cannot equate one with the other. But in a photomontage two clicks can be brought together to create a third meaning.

   The photomontages in this book try to develop an international picture language - a set of visual equations without captions. Each photograph I have used is like a syllable standing next to another syllable to form a word. Each word is a photomontage put next to another to make up a visual sentence. The images are to be read. They must speak for themselves.
   Excerpt from Afterword

   'The best exponent of the art of photomontage in Britain today'
   Sunday Times

   'Kennard is a no-nonsense political artist who proves again and again that the frightening image is just as mighty as the sword.'
   Waldemar Januszczak

   'Kennard has moved into a position of major importance. The montages he has produced for the anti-nuclear campaign are quite brilliant'
   Ken Worpole, New Statesman

   'Kennard is under no illusions about what modern war means and he uses his trenchant skill as a political artist to drive its reality home . . . the finest photomontage artist in Britain today.'
   Richard Cork, Listener

   'Kennard is one of the very few artists - the only one, it might be said - who has had a direct effect on recent British politics. His photomontages are everywhere.'
   John Roberts, Art in America

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Dimensions:
210 x 150 mm

Page Count:
128

Illustrations:
106 B&W


Publisher:
Journeyman Press

Date:
1990

PaperBack:
ISBN
1-85172-032-4

Price:
£9.99