Fortunes of War

Eric Lesdema is a photographer living in Cardiff, Wales. His work is showcased by DACS Artimage and is held in several collections, including the Contemporary Art Society.Series editor Alfredo Cramerotti is a research scholar at the University of South Wales’s European Centre for Documentary Research, director of Mostyn Visual Arts Centre, Wales, and editor of Intellect Books’ Critical Photography series. He is the author of several books, including Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing and Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness, also published by Intellect Books.

• FROM THE SERIES EDITOR TO THE READER: The Immateriality of CultureALFREDO CRAMEROTTIWhat’s in a Day?ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOSRight on Target JAN BAETENSA Visual Historiography JANE TORMEYA Reading, in RetrospectionNICOLETTE BARSDORF-LIEBCHEN‘… Pro Foro Mori’ GERALD MOOREUnstuck: ‘War Artists Without A War’ PAUL GOUGH‘Closed for Judging’: The Just Emplacement of Eric Lesdema ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOSThe Practitioner in Alter Space ERIC LESDEMAAbout the Contributors

'Eric Lesdema’s Fortunes of War offers an enticing and fundamentally unsettling engagement with the tensions (war) and consequences of the everyday. Nothing – not even the project title– can be taken at face value. As is suggested, image-meaning and significance float freely sometimes finding temporary anchors within specific conceptual or social contexts. Resonances between essays and images intrigue in this complex publication that takes its time to seduce the reader.'