Produced on the occasion of Shambroom’s survey exhibition, Picturing Power presents his five major photographic series together for the first time. An interview with the artist by Stuart Horodner along with four academic essays — from curators Diane Mullin, Christopher Scoates, Helena Reckitt, and critic Dick Hebdige — contextualize and examine the work. The common threads throughout the five series—neutrality, power, and access — informed the catalog’s graphic language. Neutrality is expressed throughout the essay section using materials — paper and ink combine to produce several shades of grey — along with a deadpan typographic approach. Evoking the urgency of warning signage the essays’ titles are set bold and large, the letterforms slightly obscured to underscore the relationship between the seen and the unseen prevalent in Shambroom’s work. Celebrating the materiality of both the Security portraits and the Meetings series the cover was printed on a coarse book cloth much like the canvases used to produce those particular images.
9" x 11.5", 160 pages
smyth-sewn, hardcover with printed book cloth, 2/2 and 4/4 interior sections
Design collaboration with Andrew Blauvelt
Weisman Art Museum
978-1933045757
Art, Military, Neutral, Reveal, Warning