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Unhinged

Artist's Book
1996 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sam Taylor-Wood spent time on a film set shooting this sequence of stills of cast, crew and equipment. It is unclear whether the people we see in these photographs are acting or not, but it is possible to read the series of images as a narrative. It is also possible to create a new narrative by opening out the long concertina leaf into which the book is folded and then re-folding it in a different way. The photographs are an apparently random mix of colour and black and white images, something that increases the book’s sense of fragmentation and dislocated story-telling.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleUnhinged (published title)
Materials and techniques
Printed book
Brief description
Artist's book, 'Unhinged', by Sam Taylor-Wood, Book Works, London, 1996
Physical description
No text, all illustrations, some colour.

Edition of 1000 copies

1 concertina folded sheet, 22 leaves of plates.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14cm
Summary
Sam Taylor-Wood spent time on a film set shooting this sequence of stills of cast, crew and equipment. It is unclear whether the people we see in these photographs are acting or not, but it is possible to read the series of images as a narrative. It is also possible to create a new narrative by opening out the long concertina leaf into which the book is folded and then re-folding it in a different way. The photographs are an apparently random mix of colour and black and white images, something that increases the book’s sense of fragmentation and dislocated story-telling.
Other number
X970015 - NAL Pressmark
Collection
Library number
38041997100623

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Record createdFebruary 13, 2014
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