Zone sets the camera itself as subject — a meditation on photography's philosophical fixation with the past colliding with the aggressive forward march of AI, machine learning, and computational image-making that now defines the medium.
About This Book
Working across searing colour and meticulous black and white, James Tunks constructs a visual argument about technology, surveillance, and exploration that is as much conceptual as it is photographic. Birds of prey and Apollo Mission insignia appear alongside remote Icelandic landscapes used for lunar exploration research; blinding full-bleed images of the sun interrupt hyper-detailed telescopic photographs of the moon. Fragmented portraits expose their own photographic processes, while images echo, mirror, and double — offering shifting vantages and dissections. The result is a body of work that sits at the intersection of photographic history and the increasingly pervasive capabilities of the contemporary camera: sensing, predicting, augmenting, and, in its own way, thinking.
Key Features
- 48 pages of duotone and full-colour photography spanning surveillance, exploration, and celestial imagery
- James Tunks's third book with Perimeter Editions
- Published by Perimeter Editions, ISBN: 9781922545374
What You'll Discover
- How Tunks uses colour as foil — flashes of searing colour set against precise, meticulously detailed black and white to generate conceptual tension
- The symbolic resonance of birds of prey, Apollo Mission insignia, and lunar research landscapes as indices of technological ambition and the classified
- Photography's own processes made visible: fragmented portraits that reveal, rather than conceal, how images are constructed
- A sustained inquiry into what it means to make images when the camera can sense, predict, and augment — and what philosophy of the photograph survives that shift
About the Author
James Tunks is a Vienna-based Australian artist. Zone is his third book published with Perimeter Editions.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 48
- Dimensions: 21 x 27.5 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781922545374
- Publisher: Perimeter Editions
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Photographers and lens-based artists interested in the philosophy of the image, collectors of Australian contemporary art publishing, and readers drawn to the intersection of technology, exploration, and photographic practice.