Staging Disorder

"'Staging Disorder' considers the contemporary representation of the real in relation to photography, architecture and modern conflict. The book includes selected images from seven photographic series that were made independently of each other - Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin's 'Chicago', Beate Geissler & Oliver Sann's 'personal kill', Claudio Hils' 'Red Land Blue Land', An-My Lae's 29 Palms', Richard Mosse's 'Airside', Sarah Pickering's 'Public Order' and Christopher Stewart's 'Kill House'. The portrayal by these artists of mock domestic rooms, aircraft, houses, streets and whole fake towns designed as military and civilian architectural simulations in preparation for real and imagined future conflicts in different parts of the globe provoke a series of questions concerning the nature of truth as it manifests itself in contemporary photographic practice."--Back cover.