Fig.

First edition of Fig. by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (2007)

First impression 

Small format hardback in fine condition 

Signed by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin to title page

Some very minor toning to extremities of pages 

Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm

One of around 100 copies in the publisher’s variant red binding, regular copies were bound in white cloth

About

Fig. consists of a series of still life, portrait, and landscape photographs, which trace links and associations between photography, imperialism, and the colonial impulse to acquire, map, and collect. Julian Stallabrass describes this work as being about ‘objectification, description, representation and classification carried to the ultimate point of the power over life itself.’