BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY, PHOTOESPAÑA 2010

His success is based on a body of provocative and compellingly intimate images of people from all over the world. Over the last 30 or so years, he has not swayed with the vagaries of artistic fashion but has retained his commitment to the power of photography to produce a space of exchange between subject, viewer and photographer. By staying true to himself, he has developed one of the most coherent and stimulating bodies of work in world photography today. 

Hardcover with dust jacket: 296 pages with over 300+ colour and B/W photographs. 
30.6 (W) x 29 (D) cm / 12 x 11.5 in.
ISBN: 9780977579044 (13 digit) 0977579042 (10 digit) 

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Edition 1: Boxed edition with one Silver Gelatin print in edition of 150
Edition 2: Boxed edition of four Type-C prints in edition of 50

Foreword by Max Pam. Essay by noted critic/academic Stephen Muecke Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Atlas Monographs is a compression of eight travel journals, beginning with Pam’s most recent work (Karakoram 2006) and shifting back through the decades to his first journals begun in 1970. The journals map, through text, photo and marks on paper his engagement with the cultures he has travelled through. Just as importantly, the journals provided the engine room for his development as a photographer, a writer and an artist. 

Max Pam is one of Australia's most important contemporary photographers. Working as a professional since the early 1970s he is among a handful of Australians to make a substantial impact on the intensely competitive international photographic scene. 

In many ways, the book represents a travel diary, or as Pam describes it, “The book makes the journey with me and has an immediacy and freshness that only the intensity of travelling alone can create.” 

Overall, this substantial publication with notes gives an emotional, sometimes lyrical, sometimes provocative, always intimate portrait of the artist as much as the people and places he has witnessed. 

The Journals:
Zanzibar January 2005
The Chinese Diaspora 1976 & 2004
South India January 2003
Yemen March 1993
Madagascar June-July 2003
South China Sea 1977 & 1998
Karakoram December 1986 & July 2006
Journals 1 and 2 1970 & 1982

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