Cover, Photograph of publication, image source: Artist

Publisher Note

The Anatomy of Business examines the visual language of business through the appropriation of an archive of 1980’s financial newspaper photographs, acquired by the artist in early 2008.

The project breaks the archive down into a series of anonymous “gestures”, which stripped of their original context and set against the inevitable backdrop of a world in financial turmoil, become both absurd and sinister. These fragments are juxtaposed with a series of photographs produced in response to the archive and in the business district of the same city. The project also incorporates a series of Appendices which distil elements of the archive along strict formal lines.

Artists’ Book

The Anatomy of Business

by Louis Porter

Publisher self-published
Release Place Australia
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2012
Credits
Artist: Louis Porter
Printrun 1000
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-0-646-57963-4
Work  
Subform Artist Newspaper
Dimensions 19.5 × 25.0 × 0.2 cm
Pages 64
Technique Offset