| @earth | |
| Author: | Peter Kennard assisted by Tarek Salhany |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | Visual, non-verbal |
| Subject: | Politics, climate change, human rights, economics |
| Genre: | Art, non-fiction |
| Published: | 2011 (Tate Publishing Ltd) |
| Media Type: | Hardback PLC with exposed greyboards B6 pocketbook: 176 x 125mm |
| Pages: | 192 pages in colour and black and white |
| Isbn: | 978-1-85437-984-9 |
@earth is a 2011 book made by the London-born (and based) photomontage artist Peter Kennard with Lebanese artist Tarek Salhany. It is a photo-essay told through photomontage with seven chapters exposing the current state of the Earth, the conditions of life on it and the need to resist injustice.[1] It was released on 1 May 2011 by Tate Publishing.
Apart from the title @earth (which is also in different languages on its back cover) the pocket book contains no words and its story is told in sequences of constructed images.[2]
@earth combines images created digitally over the preceding two years by Kennard with Salhany[3] especially for the project, with Kennard's earlier darkroom based photomontages (spanning over 40 years of work) some of which are part of the Tate Permanent Collection.[4] They have been recontextualised for the book.[5] [6] The authors met when Kennard taught Salhany at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London.[7]
@earth was launched during a 3-day event called shooting@earth at Black Rat Projects in London, together with a display of artworks by War Boutique. The centrepiece was a paintball shooting gallery where visitors could fire at silhouetted figures of city bankers.[8] Starting concurrently, an exhibition of works from the book was held at Raven Row in London.[9] The exhibition included prints of the digital works pasted on the gallery walls by dr.d as well as Kennard's earlier montages[10] [11]
13. https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/2325