Walid Raad/The Atlas Group has won the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize for 2007, the largest prize in photography offered, at $60,000 give or take depending on the exchange rate. Black and white. Interesting.
"Undertaken between 1989 and 2004, The Atlas Group is a project to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. In this project the authenticity of photographic and video documents in the ‘archive’ are queried leaving the viewer uncertain as to how history - in particular one marked by the trauma of civil war - can be told and visually represented. Appearing to be based on one person’s memories, it also draw on cultural fantasies constructed from the material of the collective memory."
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