Whatever You Say, Say Nothing

Le livre

A long-awaited, multivolume documentary fiction of photographs and documents portraying the Northern Ireland conflictIn 1972, at the age of 26, Gilles Peress (born 1946) photographed the British Armys massacre of Irish civilians on Bloody Sunday. In the 1980s he returned to the North of Ireland, intent on testing the limits of visual language and perception to understand the intractable conflict.Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, a work of documentary fiction, organizes a decade of photographs across 22 fictional days to articulate the helical structure of history during a conflict that seemed like it would never end--days of violence, of marching, of riots, of unemployment, of mourning.Accompanying each copy isAnnals of the North, a text-and-image almanac toWhatever You Say, Say Nothing, also published separately by Steidl this season; the books are housed together in a tote bag.Held back for 30 years and now eagerly anticipated,Whatever You Say, Say Nothingtakes the language of documentary photography to its extremes.