Hiroshima Mon Amour. Exhibition view from Photography To End All Photography, Brandts (DK)
Detail from Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Detail from Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Detail from Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Detail from Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Hiroshima Mon Amour is a 16.45-meter digital montage about memory and forgetfulness. It is a narrative with a beginning and an end. The mountain range in the background is a digital construction from archival photographs taken from Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after the nuclear blasts. The foreground is constructed using NASA’s lunar photographs and screenshots from Alain Resnais's movie Hiroshima Mon Amour.
"Barker’s work Hiroshima Mon Amour is inspired by the movie of the same name by Alain Resnais. Just like the film is a story told as a dialogue between Him and Her, the image can be observed as a visual conversation between two different landscapes – the Terrestrial (Hiroshima after the nuclear explosion) and the Lunar. Using this structure, Barker combines elements of the observed and constructed landscape to form a particular visual order." Text from the exhibition Action at a Distance, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center. (H)
Hiroshima Mon Amour. Exhibition view from Photography To End All Photography, Brandts (DK)
Hiroshima Mon Amour. Exhibition view from Photography To End All Photography, Brandts (DK)
Hiroshima Mon Amour. Exhibition view from Photography To End All Photography, Brandts (DK)
Hiroshima Mon Amour. Exhibition view from Acts of Disappearance, International Festival of Photography in Lodz (PL)
Hiroshima Mon Amour. Exhibition view from Acts of Disappearance, International Festival of Photography in Lodz (PL)
Hiroshima Mon Amour. Exhibition view from Action at a Distance, Robert Capa International Photography Center (H)
Hiroshima Mon Amour. Exhibition view from Action at a Distance, Robert Capa International Photography Center (H)