"waco" - Jack Garland
ITEM WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM NEXT OCTOBER 2024
The unresolved thread of photography, laid open and inviting, in the form of the book, is often better positioned to ask questions than it is to provide answers. Within the aggregate assembly of its parts, its delineation of sequence, the bit for which the audience avidly chomps are keys to providing enlightenment, however unfulfilled or cryptic in nature. Within this paradigm of confusing directive is the key to photography itself.
What we cannot have answers for, we must project onto. Without being led, like a vacant and dehydrated horse to a trough of brackish water, being forced to drink leads to quick delusion, followed by clarity. The first drink is the one we risk the most. We risk a nervous shock to the system, our body rejecting what it desires most, sustenance. If allowed to climb our consciousness slowly, with a gentle tug instead of a prod, photography and the photobook give permanent sustenance.
What is in a name? What is in a date? Jack Garland’s new book, waco, small w noted, is full of cryptic keys, signatures, and clues that open a dialog with the viewer starting with its title. Inside the book, beautiful black and white photographs permeate the pages, a long-distance nod to the pioneering work of Robert Adams, and Lewis Baltz, but with a position more suited toward John Gossage. The photographs sometimes present as formal, but then are given a complexity in their ordering and then finally their patchwork of clues for the viewer to investigate. It is not an easy book. It does not have one reading, but many, and in this, it makes the premise (s) of the work fluid, open to projection and participation.
Where is waco? Who is waco? When is waco? And what is our taxation? To whose fever dream does the book’s production apply? Is it conditional to the surrendering moment of a country fixated between bliss and oblivion or have I already said too much…let whispers be our guide…for without them, silence would be the victor…
Published October 2024 by Nearest Truth Editions First Edition of 350 regular and 150 Special Editions
Photography: Jack Garland
Art Direction and Sequencing: Brad Feuerhelm and Jack Garland Design: Simon Bray
Production Manager:
Printed by:
Binding by:
Paper: Munken Lynx 120gsm
Typefaces: Cloister Black & Butler
ITEM WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM NEXT OCTOBER 2024
The unresolved thread of photography, laid open and inviting, in the form of the book, is often better positioned to ask questions than it is to provide answers. Within the aggregate assembly of its parts, its delineation of sequence, the bit for which the audience avidly chomps are keys to providing enlightenment, however unfulfilled or cryptic in nature. Within this paradigm of confusing directive is the key to photography itself.
What we cannot have answers for, we must project onto. Without being led, like a vacant and dehydrated horse to a trough of brackish water, being forced to drink leads to quick delusion, followed by clarity. The first drink is the one we risk the most. We risk a nervous shock to the system, our body rejecting what it desires most, sustenance. If allowed to climb our consciousness slowly, with a gentle tug instead of a prod, photography and the photobook give permanent sustenance.
What is in a name? What is in a date? Jack Garland’s new book, waco, small w noted, is full of cryptic keys, signatures, and clues that open a dialog with the viewer starting with its title. Inside the book, beautiful black and white photographs permeate the pages, a long-distance nod to the pioneering work of Robert Adams, and Lewis Baltz, but with a position more suited toward John Gossage. The photographs sometimes present as formal, but then are given a complexity in their ordering and then finally their patchwork of clues for the viewer to investigate. It is not an easy book. It does not have one reading, but many, and in this, it makes the premise (s) of the work fluid, open to projection and participation.
Where is waco? Who is waco? When is waco? And what is our taxation? To whose fever dream does the book’s production apply? Is it conditional to the surrendering moment of a country fixated between bliss and oblivion or have I already said too much…let whispers be our guide…for without them, silence would be the victor…
Published October 2024 by Nearest Truth Editions First Edition of 350 regular and 150 Special Editions
Photography: Jack Garland
Art Direction and Sequencing: Brad Feuerhelm and Jack Garland Design: Simon Bray
Production Manager:
Printed by:
Binding by:
Paper: Munken Lynx 120gsm
Typefaces: Cloister Black & Butler
ITEM WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM NEXT OCTOBER 2024
The unresolved thread of photography, laid open and inviting, in the form of the book, is often better positioned to ask questions than it is to provide answers. Within the aggregate assembly of its parts, its delineation of sequence, the bit for which the audience avidly chomps are keys to providing enlightenment, however unfulfilled or cryptic in nature. Within this paradigm of confusing directive is the key to photography itself.
What we cannot have answers for, we must project onto. Without being led, like a vacant and dehydrated horse to a trough of brackish water, being forced to drink leads to quick delusion, followed by clarity. The first drink is the one we risk the most. We risk a nervous shock to the system, our body rejecting what it desires most, sustenance. If allowed to climb our consciousness slowly, with a gentle tug instead of a prod, photography and the photobook give permanent sustenance.
What is in a name? What is in a date? Jack Garland’s new book, waco, small w noted, is full of cryptic keys, signatures, and clues that open a dialog with the viewer starting with its title. Inside the book, beautiful black and white photographs permeate the pages, a long-distance nod to the pioneering work of Robert Adams, and Lewis Baltz, but with a position more suited toward John Gossage. The photographs sometimes present as formal, but then are given a complexity in their ordering and then finally their patchwork of clues for the viewer to investigate. It is not an easy book. It does not have one reading, but many, and in this, it makes the premise (s) of the work fluid, open to projection and participation.
Where is waco? Who is waco? When is waco? And what is our taxation? To whose fever dream does the book’s production apply? Is it conditional to the surrendering moment of a country fixated between bliss and oblivion or have I already said too much…let whispers be our guide…for without them, silence would be the victor…
Published October 2024 by Nearest Truth Editions First Edition of 350 regular and 150 Special Editions
Photography: Jack Garland
Art Direction and Sequencing: Brad Feuerhelm and Jack Garland Design: Simon Bray
Production Manager:
Printed by:
Binding by:
Paper: Munken Lynx 120gsm
Typefaces: Cloister Black & Butler