Mark Powell - Open At Noon

1st edition published by Editorial RM, 2014
Format: Hardback, Faux Leather, 205x260mm
Pages: 74
Condition: New

This book, winner of the 4th Iberoamerican Photobook Competition, invites us to explore a world both apparently known to us and, at the same time, strangely different. Mark Powell s images captured across Latin America configure a multi-lay- ered narrative that moves from the known to the tortuous, from composition to imbalance, from humor to an unsettling disquiet. It is not clear whether Powell s photography is the result of objective possibilities, documented street photography, provocative collaboration, or a combination of these last two. It is obvious, however, that it offers an answer to a question that artists have always posed: Does the act of observing change the origin and meaning of what we observe? The answer is another question: Would these scenes have taken place like this, if Powell had not been there to observe them?