This book combines poetry, photography and photomontage to create a narrative of our time as we approach the Millennium. Kennard's narrator is a wandering figure who arrives at the Millennium Dome as it is still under construction. In a fragmentary and hallucinatory fashion, the narrator flicks through images of the 20th Century as though seeing the images on a projector. This attempt to find a new form for the photographic book is a creative example of the The Critical Image series, which was commissioned to illustrate the links between photography and power, and to reveal how photography builds a sense of reality and promotes "national interests." As the foremost practitioner of photomontage, Kennard is responsible for expanding and furthering the subject of photography itself.
- ISBN10 0719058031
- ISBN13 9780719058035
- Publish Date 9 December 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 February 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English