Robert Tombs: The History Of Photography

Year: 1991
16 pages
20.3 x 25.4 cm
ISBN: 0-88828-094-7
$2.00 softcover

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This publication coincides with the exhibition Robert Tombs: The History of Photography held at the Owens Art Gallery from 28 March to 28 April 1991.

Robert Tombs creates a dialogue between photographs of the past and present by borrowing images that are highly reproduced and recreating them as “an alternate history that ‘depicts’ history.”

Forward by Gemey Kelley
Essay by Michael Parke-Taylor

Two hands hold open a book to a two page spread. The left page has a side profile photograph of a person wearing a sculpted nose. The right page contains an essay titled "Double Identity & the History of Photography."