Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown
SPBH Editions
· 2023
· Paperback
An essay on photographs whose subjects cannot be named, and on what that failure shows about the limits of knowledge.
Beil argues that inscrutable photographs keep ambiguity alive: they make room for curiosity and wonder by resisting attempts to know the world by naming it. The book is a small-format paperback of 175 pages, 10 by 14.8 cm, in black and white and colour, published by SPBH Editions in September 2023 as number 5 in the SPBH Essays series and distributed with MACK.
Kim Beil is an art historian and writer based in the United States who specialises in photography and also works as a photographer and teacher.
Details
Publisher
SPBH Editions
Archive
kimbeil.com
Year
2023
ISBN
9781739606725
Format
Paperback
Pages
175
Dimensions
14.8cm × 10cm
Language
English
Notes
Number 5 in the SPBH Essays series, published by SPBH Editions with MACK, September 2023 (ISBN 9781739606725, paperback). No other edition was found. Identified from a spine photograph; edition not checked against the copy.