Widely acclaimed, The Diminishing Present is presented in three inter-related segments and one final, independent chapter.
The premise for this work stemmed from Rushdie’s closing observations in the book The Wizard of Oz (BFI Film Classics): ‘Its not that there is no place like home, there is no longer any such thing as “home”’.
Produced almost entirely within a 3km radius of Martins’ home and studio, The Diminishing Present is a journey of recognition: the city and, in a broader sense, home, as our object of understanding is changing and because of this one needs to find a new critical language that supports it, and a new system of knowledge from which to derive our glossary of life.
Date: July 2006
ISBN: 978-0-9543957-7-3
Dimensions: 330mmx280mm
Pages: 160
Edition: 500 (signed and numbered)
Blind debossing on front & back covers with tipped-in image, housed in a screen printed acrylic slipcase
English & Portuguese
Essays by David Campany, David Chandler, Nuno Porto & Rita Amaral, Peter D. Osborne
About the Artist
Edgar Martins is visual artist woking across different media. His work is represented in several high-profile collections and has won numerous awards. He was selected to represent Macau (China) at the 54th Venice Biennale.
About the Writers
David Campany is a curator, writer, and Managing Director of Programs at the International Center of Photography, New York.
David Chandler is Professor in Photography at Plymouth University. He works as a writer, editor and curator, in the fields of contemporary photography, photographic history and the visual arts.
Nuno Porto trained has a social anthropologist. He currently serves as Associate Director for Research and co-curator for Africa at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology.
Peter D. Osborne is the author of Travelling Light, photography, travel and visual culture,Manchester University Press, and of a number of articles, papers and catalogue essays on photography and landscape; art, photography and travel; and on Latin America photography.
