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Dafna Talmor — Constructed Landscapes by Fw:Books (released October 2020)
24 x 28 cm / 210 pages (10 gatefolds) / colour/ softcover /
Texts by Olga Smith, Shoair Mavlian, Cherry Smyth and interview by Gemma Padley with Dafna Talmor;
Design Hans Gremmen

To order copies please visit Fw:Books
​For distribution please visit Idea Books

Constructed Landscapes, an ongoing project consisting of three volumes, stems from a personal archive of photographs initially shot as mere keepsakes across different locations. Produced by collaging medium format colour negatives, the resulting images are staged landscapes, a conflation combining the ‘real’ and the imaginary. Through this work, specific places initially loaded with personal meaning and political connotations, are transformed
​into a space of greater universality. Blurring place, memory and time - defying specificity and referring to the transient - the work alludes to idealised and utopian spaces. In dialogue with the history of photography, Constructed Landscapes references Pictorialist processes of combination printing as well as Modernist experiments with the materiality of film. Whilst distinctly holding historical references, the work engages with contemporary discourse on manipulation and the analogue/digital divide. Beyond photographs, the work has expanded to include site-specific vinyl wallpapers and
spatial interventions, photograms, studies and photographic sculptures.

The book includes 44 main colour plates from the first two volumes alongside extensive previously unpublished process material such as reproductions of contact sheets, constructed negatives and preparatory studies.

Constructed Landscapes has been longlisted for the 2021 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards. 

Book reviews/features can be viewed here:
Paper Journal by Eugenie Shinkle
c4 journal by Nick Scammell
American Suburb X by Brad Feuerhelm
Collector Daily by Loring Knoblauch
Conscientious Photography Magazine by Jörg M. Colberg
Photobookstore Magazine interview with Zak Dimitrov
BREEDBEELD Magazine review by 
Stefan Vanthuyne

The book has been included on Photobooks of 2020 lists selected by:
Brad Feuerhelm, Eugenie Shinkle, Awoiska van der Molen, Morgan Crowcroft-Brown for Photobookstore
Emma Bowkett for Deadbeat Club
Shoair Mavlian for Fast Forward: Women in Photography

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