Ten real lives, ten photographs, ten journeys in time: the first killing of the Cold War, the dying hopes of a doomed aviator, the ghosts of Native America at Alcatraz,...
Published to coincide with Notes Home, an exhibition curated by the Archive of Modern Conflict’s Timothy Prus and Ed Jones for Format Festival 2013, issue 5 of Amc2 features picture postcards from the archive’s permanent collection....
The Chinese are not alone in their fascination for creatures that dance on the boundary between the human and animal worlds. Maoist ideology in China had long criminalised such interest...
Unwanted Butterfly spent half of his 40 years behind bars, so he had plenty of time to have his whole body tattooed. He was an unusual sight in Socialist Hungary,...
The Canadians playfully and informatively re-imagines one of the most revered photobooks of the 20th century, Robert Frank’s The Americans. The source for the imagery is the print archive of...
Drawing on more than 100 unpublished photographs, including unseen images of some of the most famous and infamous Berlin clubs of the 1920s, Party! Party!! Party!!! depicts the Weimar Republic through the...
Each copy contains one of three different stamped and numbered original Liu YiQing prints. The photographs in Happy Tonite have been selected by Ed Jones and James Welch from the collection of Chinese photography...
Issue 10 of Amc2 is published to coincide with LagosPhoto 2014 and draws on three contrasting Africa-related collections from the Archive of Modern Conflict: Nigeria’s ‘Nollywood’ film industry’s obsession with the...
In September 1939, thousands of German soldiers were turned loose on Poland. In 1940, they descended on Holland, Belgium and France. In 1941 they went to the Balkans, and then...
Issue 8 of Amc2 features a selection of full-length portraits, some black & white and others hand-coloured, made in Chinese studios between the 1930s and the 1980s. This serendipitous reunion of 60...
The first Earth-born creature to enter space was Laika, a stray dog from Moscow that blasted off aboard Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957, heralding the beginning of the space...
Printed in burgundy, blue and dark green versions, Issue 3 of Amc2 is a commemorative visitor’s guide to London 2012. The 40-page booklet offers many useful culinary and cultural tips to help...
The inaugural issue of AMC2 journal brings together different groups of work that illuminate lost corners of our cultural life. Photography is, as ever, the keystone of the collection. The Archive of...
With the demise of Kodachrome film in 2009, the colour palette that in many ways defined an era also disappeared. The 200+ Kodachrome slides selected by Ed Jones and Timothy...
More Cooning with Cooners arose out of the discovery of a series of anonymous Kodachrome slides documenting one family’s 1960s raccoon-hunting adventures in Ohio, USA. The book pays homage to (and...
Don McCullin has been making photographs for more than 50 years, first capturing the small dramas of everyday life in 1950s London, then travelling to the world’s most dangerous conflict...
The second issue of AMC2 features the funerary practices of the Fali tribe of Cameroon, Martin Parr’s appreciation of the concrete hotels of the Spanish Costas, the tragic story of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s...
Published to coincide with Archive of Modern Conflict’s contribution to the exhibition Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern, London, AMC2 Issue 11: A Guide for the Protection of the Public in Peacetime presents the landscapes...
Do green people exist? A quick search brings up the legend of the green children of Woolpit. This tale recounts the discovery of a brother and sister who appeared largely...
The hundreds of photographs gathered in Will Write Soon, lead us into the meanderings of day-to-day life in the towns and countryside of North America at the turn of the 20th...
‘This is what hatred did’ is the lapidary phrase that ends Amos Tutuola’s novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. When it was published in 1954, the novel provoked such...
The great technological leap that took place in the 19th century in optical lens systems such as the microscope meant that by the latter half of the century the exploration...
The Luton Auguries began with the purchase of the newspaper archives of the city of Luton. From this vast source material, Timothy Prus selects and assembles a series of images, creating a surrealist...
This is a second, updated, and completely reformatted edition of Antony Cairns’ original, handmade book LDN from 2010. In this new edition, the large format and fine 170gsm Claro paper draw the viewer...
Issue 12 of Amc2 is about the space left by the disappearance of photography both as an idea and as a material object. It is also a memento mori for Frido Troost...
In 2011, New York-based street photographer Bruce Gilden was commissioned by the Archive of Modern Conflict to capture the people and places of London. Kalev Erickson, who accompanied Gilden in...
The OODA Loop is known in business and in warfare. It was originally devised by John Boyd, a USAF officer who was active in the Korean war and who later...
Nein, Onkel: Snapshots From Another Front 1938–1945 is a photographic survey of a different, rarely glimpsed side of life in the Nazi Third Reich. It contains reproductions of 347 previously unpublished...
Dry Hole is an intuitive selection of images extracted from a collection of Real Photo Postcards (RPPCs). David Thomson emphasises details contained within the larger frame of the postcards by cropping...
Collected Shadows, a touring exhibition curated by the Archive of Modern Conflict and first exhibited at Paris Photo in 2012. The works span a period from the early 1850s to...
Handle with gloves. Ink is not fixed and may smudge or transfer. TV Casualty is a graphic study of the horror of nostalgia in the decline of the American Dream. On...
‘Tokyo Tokyo consists of a series of diptychs in which the mythical “decisive moment” of traditional documentary photography is lampooned. In their projects, WassinkLundgren playfully turn the unwritten rules of the...
‘The Night Climbers of Cambridge was published in 1937 by Chatto & Windus, a reputable house that had brought out the first English translations of Proust in 1922. The author was...
No one doubts Queen Victoria would have loved Colombia. She was known to suffer from orchid delirium and appointed an official Royal orchid expert whose name was Frederick Sanders. The...
Edited from 25 years of work (1979–2005), The British Landscape is a collation of John Davies’ revealing landscapes. Rich in detail and narrative, and contrasting scenes of nature apparently untouched by humans...
Silvermine is a set of five photo albums each containing 20 prints. The negatives were salvaged from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, where they had been sent to...
Roger Hilton (1911–1975) produced the works now known as the ‘Late Gouaches’ and ‘Night Letters’ during the final two years of his life at his cottage in Cornwall’s West Penwith....
‘Right from the start, almost every appearance he made was catastrophic … catastrophe is his means of operation, and his central instrument of governance.’– Adi Ophir For their version of...
This book tells the story of how plants arrived on this planet and gave rise to other forms of life. Using images archived at AMC (Archive of Modern Conflict), the book...
Enigmatic Hungarian photographer Gergely Papp (1922–2000) was born into a peasant family, on a farmstead in Pusztaecseg (now Ecsegfalva) in Eastern Hungary. He would live there for the rest of...
In Don’t Smile Now … Save it for Later, Thijs Groot Wassink shows us London from the viewpoint of a photo booth. Go into the booth, open the curtain, feed in...
Is it a book, is it a sculpture? No, it’s a Me Nu. This work by Ruben Lundgren and Timothy Prus has been produced to coincide with their exhibition “Anything that...
The title of this two-volume set gives little clue to the content beyond the fact that 82 photos are included in each volume. Like some bureaucratic code, it marks but...
