Thomas Mailaender - Illustrated People

Archive of Modern Conflict, London/RVB Books, 2014. First edition. Softback in red plastic cover. Winner of the 2015 ParisPhoto/Aperture PhotoBook of the Year Award and the 2015 PHotoEspana Best Photography Book of the Year International Category.

Condition: Like new.

ISBN: 979-10-90306-32-5

Illustrated People is the manifestation in book form of a performance by Thomas Mailaender, in which he applied original negatives selected from the Archive of Modern Conflict’s collection to the skin of models and projected a powerful UV lamp over them, revealing a fleeting image on the skin’s surface. Mailaender then photographed each of his models before exposure to daylight caused the images to disappear. The book comprises the resulting shots interspersed with a series of archival images from the AMC collection.