A Guide for the Protection of the Public in Peacetime
The eleventh issue of the Archive of Modern Conflict's journal AMC2, made to accompany the archive's room in Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern.
The book sets out war as seen by the people it draws in, damages and unsettles. Its range runs from war paint and feathered tribal display, through the knightly ideal of the warrior, to the technical language of triggers and switches, and it puts photographs by well-known photographers next to pictures by people whose names have been lost. The archive's Tate installation, curated by Timothy Prus and Ed Jones, aimed, in Prus's words, for the feel of a private, outsider museum, the kind found in a garage or garden shed. The book is a 144-page hardcover with an orange cover that reads "Not for the general public". It was shortlisted for the 2015 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
The Archive of Modern Conflict was founded in 1991 as a collection of photographs of war and has grown into a large repository of vernacular photographs, objects and ephemera. It publishes photobooks and the intermittent AMC2 journal, each issue printed in a different format.
