Gregory Eddi Jones: Promise Land Jones Gregory Eddi
Gregory Eddi Jones: Promise Land Jones Gregory Eddi A photographic epic by Gregory Eddi Jones, in conversation with The Waste LandA visual poetic epic by Philadelphia-based artist Gregory Eddi Jones…
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Gregory Eddi Jones: Promise Land Jones Gregory Eddi
A photographic epic by Gregory Eddi Jones, in conversation with The Waste LandA visual poetic epic by Philadelphia-based artist Gregory Eddi Jones (born 1986), Promise Land reimagines the function of photography. Eliot's masterpiece The Waste Land as its point of departure, the book presents a sequence of images, picking up where the poem left off nearly 100 years ago.Borrowing from Eliot's strategies of literary allusion and fragmented, collage-like narrative, Jones pulls inspiration from a range of photographic and artistic processes and traditions. Using T.S.
The resulting sequence Using stock and advertising photographs as his source material, he employs strategies of digital composite and physical ink manipulation to craft a new kind of picture--one untethered from the traditional burdens of photography's relationships to truth.