Altered Archive Book + Print
Altered Archive Book + Print
In Altered Archive, imaginary archivist Madge Cameron considers where we situate authorship, conservation, and photographic truth today against a backdrop of AI upheaval, social fragmentation, and political censorship of cultural institutions and their collections. Join Cameron for an immersive tour through her archive as it undergoes alterations and absences that oscillate between preservation and loss, analog and digital, material truth and artful fiction.
Book: $30 plus $5 shipping
Book and Limited Edition Print: $135 with free USA shipping
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Details
Book 8.5 x 11 inches, 44 pages, saddle stitch binding, 4 color digital offset printing on acid free paper. Additional tipped-in details and ephemera. Printed and bound in USA, with hand finishing by the artist in Pacifica, CA.
Print Unique artist-made archival pigment print Golden Gate on baryta paper, 3 7/8 x 2 6/8 inches. Print is unmounted and suitable for framing, or to keep housed in your book. Limited edition of 30.
For the last decade, artist Rachel Phillips has made work under the guise of an alter-ego named Madge Cameron—a dedicated, reclusive archivist at an imaginary photographic archive whose contents are undergoing unexpected alterations and even disappearances. The core of the work is digitally altered vernacular snapshots in which glitchy aberrations pierce the black and white images. See more work from Fixed here.
