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Dafna Talmor — Constructed Landscapes by Fw:Books (released October 2020) OUT OF PRINT
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 Whilst distinctly holding historical references, the work engages with contemporary discourse on manipulation and the analogue/digital divide.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The book includes 44 main colour plates from the first two volumes alongside extensive previously unpublished process material such as reproductions of contact sheets, constructed negatives and preparatory studies.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
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
Dafna Talmor — Constructed Landscapes: Addendum (released May 2025)
Edition of 250 / 24 x 28 cm / 40 pages / signed and numbered / cahier bound / including one risograph print (15 x 21 cm)
There are 4 different colour riso prints: CMYK, which are randomly distributed in the edition
Design by Hans Gremmen, Text by Dafna Talmor
In Constructed Landscapes: Addendum, Talmor’s 2020 monograph Constructed Landscapes (pictured above Addendum), served as a catalyst to produce new work that relies on the repurposing and reimagining of redundant source material, a process integral to her practice. Activated through recurring actions performed in the colour darkroom, it extends Talmor’s exploration of voids and negative spaces. Through multiple transitions and reproductions, colour photograms made with collaged book sheets of the monograph, render the original source material — and its connotations — invisible while retaining its indexical trace. By oscillating between negatives and positives Talmor seeks to playfully blur the often-rigid boundaries and reductive relationship imposed on traditional photographic practices. Through this process, a cycle of mechanical reproduction is instigated, eventually coming full circle. Like all the work in the Constructed Landscapes series, analogue glitches and the materiality of the process come to the fore; traces of light leak out to form flares and so-called imperfections — a consequence of the hardware and optics of the darkroom—simultaneously enabling the artist’s hand to become more visible. The publication is signed and numbered and includes one risograph print (15 x 21 cm). There are four different print colours, which are randomly distributed throughout the edition.
To order copies and to view images of Addendum please visit Fw:Books
For distribution please visit Idea Books
For an interview featured on INK please visit their website here
Edition of 250 / 24 x 28 cm / 40 pages / signed and numbered / cahier bound / including one risograph print (15 x 21 cm)
There are 4 different colour riso prints: CMYK, which are randomly distributed in the edition
Design by Hans Gremmen, Text by Dafna Talmor
In Constructed Landscapes: Addendum, Talmor’s 2020 monograph Constructed Landscapes (pictured above Addendum), served as a catalyst to produce new work that relies on the repurposing and reimagining of redundant source material, a process integral to her practice. Activated through recurring actions performed in the colour darkroom, it extends Talmor’s exploration of voids and negative spaces. Through multiple transitions and reproductions, colour photograms made with collaged book sheets of the monograph, render the original source material — and its connotations — invisible while retaining its indexical trace. By oscillating between negatives and positives Talmor seeks to playfully blur the often-rigid boundaries and reductive relationship imposed on traditional photographic practices. Through this process, a cycle of mechanical reproduction is instigated, eventually coming full circle. Like all the work in the Constructed Landscapes series, analogue glitches and the materiality of the process come to the fore; traces of light leak out to form flares and so-called imperfections — a consequence of the hardware and optics of the darkroom—simultaneously enabling the artist’s hand to become more visible. The publication is signed and numbered and includes one risograph print (15 x 21 cm). There are four different print colours, which are randomly distributed throughout the edition.
To order copies and to view images of Addendum please visit Fw:Books
For distribution please visit Idea Books
For an interview featured on INK please visit their website here