576 pages. englisch. 17.5 cm x 19.7 cm. with texts by giorgio agamben and richard mosse.okarton mit 280 tritone-abb. ota-bound paperback with metallic silkscreen cover image and black painted edges. metallic tritone printing throughout. "the major humanitarian and political issue of our time is migration and with his latest video work, irish artist richard mosse has created a searing, haunting and unique artwork. projected across three 8 meter wide screens, the film is accompanied by a loud dissonant soundtrack to create an overwhelming, immersive experience. moving from footage of a live battle inside syria, in which a us aircraft strafes daesh positions on the ground, to a scene showing pathologists extracting dna from the bones of unidentified corpses of refugees drowned off the aegean island of leros, the film opens a testimonial space of historical document – bearing witness to significant chapters in recent events – mediated through an advanced weapons-grade camera technology. narratives of the journeys made by refugees and migrants across the middle east, north africa, and europe, are captured using an extremely powerful thermal camera not generally available to the public. this super-telephoto military camera can perceive the human body beyond 50km day or night, reading the biological trace of human life. the camera translates the world into a heat signature of apparent temperature difference, producing a dazzling monochrome halo-image which alludes literally and metaphorically to hypothermia, climate change, weapons targeting, border surveillance, xenophobia, and the ‘bare life’ of stateless people. the book version recreates the immersive nature of the film, combining still images from the entire sequence over nearly 600 pages to represent the harsh and compelling narrative in a full bleed layout.". sehr gutes exemplar.