British photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black have assembled photographs and documents that confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control. From George W. Bushs 2001 declaration of the war on terror until 2008, an unknown number of people disappeared into a network of secret prisons organized by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agencytransfers without legal process known as extraordinary renditions. No public records were kept as detainees were shuttled all over the globe. Some were eventually sent to Guantánamo Bay or released without charge, while others remain unaccounted for. The paper trail assembled in this volume shows these activities via the weak points of business accountability: invoices, documents of incorporation, and billing reconciliations produced by the small-town American businesses enlisted in detainee transportation. Clark has traveled worldwide to photograph former detention sites, detainees homes, and government locations. He and Black recreate the network that links CIA black sites, and evoke ideas of opacity, surface, and testimony in relation to this processa system hidden in plain sight. Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, copublished with the Magnum Foundation, its creation supported by Magnum Foundations Emergency Fund, raises fundamental questions about the accountability and complicity of our governments, and the erosion of our most basic civil rights.
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Weight: 1490g
Dimensions: 215 x 295mm
Publication Date: 01 Feb 2016
Publisher: Aperture
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781597113519
About Crofton BlackEdmund ClarkEyal Weizman
Edmund Clark is an award-winning photographer whose work links history politics and representation. His series Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out (2010) Letters to Omar (2010) and Control Order House (2012) engage with state censorship to explore hidden experiences and spaces of control and incarceration in the global war on terror. His work The Mountains of Majeed (2014) reflects on the end of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan the longest war in American history. Clark has received worldwide recognition for his work including the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal for outstanding photography for public service and the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award as well as being shortlisted for the Prix Pictet and the W. Eugene Smith Award. His work has been acquired for public collections in Europe and America. He teaches at the University of the Arts London. Crofton Black has spent over five years carrying out in-depth international investigations into counterterrorism tactics on behalf of the human rights group Reprieve the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and other organizations. He has a doctorate of philosophy from the University of London on the topic of early modern hermeneutics and was formerly an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin. Eyal Weizman is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London where he directs the Centre for Research Architecture and the European Research Council funded project Forensic Architecture. He is also a founder member of the collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) in Bethlehem Palestine. He is the author of Hollow Land among other titles. He lives in London. Ben Weaver is a graphic designer art director of The Wire magazine and cofounder and publisher of Here Press.
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