Alfredo Jaar: The Fire This Time: Public Interventions 1979-2005

by Alfredo Jaar, Mary Jane Jacob, Nancy Princenthal

An architect interested in ephemeral structures, a photographer who has grown increasingly suspicious of pictures, Jaar's most telling gesture is to relinquish the camera by placing it, figuratively and sometimes literally, in the public's hands. In other words, Jaar is a master of indirection. And no wonder. His work was shaped at the outset by the need to speak clearly and forcefully against murderous injustice, using language of the most lucid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8881585308
• ISBN13: 9788881585304
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Charta
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.6"