Cameron Martin

"Purposely overlapping the traditional categories of artist book and monograph, analogue is an amalgam of images that forms a visual account of what motivates artist Cameron Martin's methodology and production. The non-hierarchical layout positions appropriated advertisements, travel snapshots, found images and studio pictures alongside reproductions of actual paintings and drawings. What emerges is a complex view of the artist's thinking about representation of the contemporary essays found in most books about artists, the included writings have an asymptotic relationship to the imagery, framing the visual material with further texture. Martha Schwendener's wide-reaching text takes on the history of landscape and the sublime as they have been filtered through paining and photography. Alexander Dumbadze's essay on Robert Manry's solo voyage across the North Atlantic in a thirteen-and-a-half-foot sailboat provokes questions about the relationship between nature, will and failure. --