The English publishing house Archives of Modern Conflict, which uses the eponymous London archives (4 million images by famous and unknown photographers), specializes in archival photographs. With the internet, the vernacular photograph has never been more pored over and pulverized, and some curators, publishers and gallery spaces have made it the center of their relationship to the image.
As its name suggests, the Archives of Modern Conflict relies heavily on war photography, but its approach is fresh. The artistic direction is free and assured, changing from one work to the next. It could almost be an artist’s book.
AMC2 is the AMC’s journal, published every now and then.
AMC2 revisits AMC projects (including exhibition, like Collected Shadows at Paris Photo in 2012) and explores the visual niches like a cabinet of curiosities. Its first issue was devoted to antique postcards advertising cigarettes, masked wrestlers and early French pornography, among other things. With subjects that transcend subject, location or era, AMC2 lets readers keep up with the keen and discerning eyes of its restless curators, who are slowly emerging as the most reliable ones in international photo publishing.
20 £ per issue.
For more information: http://www.amcbooks.com/amc2-journal-issue-8
