
Photo Against the Machine
- Publisher
- JBE Books
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 978-2-36568-091-2
- Specifications
- 14 x 19 cm
264 pages
25 plates
Hardcover with hot foil stamping
Foreword by Simon Baker
Texts by Ann Massal
English; also issued in French (ISBN 978-2-36568-090-5)
Made with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Massal put her questions to an artificial intelligence about twenty-five photographers from the collection of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Part philosophical essay, part criticism of one of the best-known collections in the world, the result throws a new light on the field and argues that pulling the right trigger is a work in itself, whatever the instrument.
“Massal's sequenced questions take us into, through and around the received ideas about some of the greatest photographers, never to mock but always to push the normative modes of thinking and writing further.” — Fisheye
“The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.” — Susan Sontag