Photographer
Hannah Collins
Hardback
306 pages
124 b/w and colour ills
24.5 x 17.0 cm
10.0 x 7.0 in
ISBN10: 1 904772 79 x
ISBN13: 978 1 904772 79 8
Finding, Transmitting, Receiving reviews
Finding, Transmitting, Receiving has been reviewed in the August/September issue of Hotshoe, and was described as 'beautifully designed'. The book was also reviewed on the Dogma website. Here is a quote from the review:
"As well as being a powerful visual kind of poetry... the pictures suggest something about the politics of space."
Dogma
Read the review here.
Praise for Finding Transmitting Receiving
"Beautifully designed and printed on lovely, thick paper."
Hotshoe
"This challenging and sometimes difficult work undertakes a representation of some of the pockets of resistance to modernity.... A mark and a strength of Collins' book is that it does so in a language adequate to the critical nature of that undertaking."
Foto 8
"This book acts rather like a souvenir: selected images from her work – a sequence of cameos from dreams, but haunting dreams from the world we inhabit."
Inscape
"Invites the viewer to see the world from a unique perspective."
Amateur Photographer
Finding, Transmitting, Receiving Hannah Collins
Finding, Transmitting, Receiving is the first major anthology of the work of internationally renowned artist, photographer and filmmaker Hannah Collins. The book collects together for the first time the extensive body of work that Collins has produced over the last 15 years.
An important and compelling document of the work of one of the world’s foremost contemporary photographers, Finding, Transmitting, Receiving features both widely known and never-before-seen images, found family portraits and childhood drawings, as well as the complete scripts for her
film projects.
Collins, who divides her time between Barcelona and London, is celebrated for her large-scale installations and films. Winner of the prestigious European Photography Award and short listed for the Turner Prize, she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and has held professorships at the University of California at Davis and the Royal College of Art in London.
Her projects include work in the former Eastern Bloc, with gypsy communities in Barcelona and in a remote village during a Russian winter, as well as other lengthy involvements in wide-ranging locations. All of these, through Collins' work, create a broad canvas on which to contemplate the human condition.
In each place Collins documents the omnipresence of a universal modernism and the global features of modernity. At the same time, her lens reveals the cracks and fissures through which the ancient and the culturally specific become visible. Homelessness, migration and the global effects of shifting economic patterns are recurring themes in her work, as is the power of place and architecture to communicate historic events.
A comprehensive look at this fascinating artist, Finding, Transmitting, Receiving brings a breadth of vision and understanding to Collins' work, giving readers the chance to discover photographs and films that are in collections scattered worldwide. The book coincides with the completion of her most recent film project 'Current History' and will complement a major forthcoming exhibition of Collins' work at the Fundacion La Caixa in Barcelona and Madrid.
With an introduction by Iwona Blazwick, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery in London and a critic, lecturer and broadcaster on contemporary art.
