Hijacked 01 Australia And America HC: V. 1 - Hardcover

The most important book of photographs to come out of Australia in the past five years ... Hijacked defines the shape of things to come. Alasdair Foster, Director, Australian Centre for Photography Providing a voice for some of the most exciting and provocative new photography from Australia and America, Hijacked takes a road less travelled. The book erases traditional boundaries between art, document and snapshot to point towards the future of contemporary photomedia. Shunning repetitive and predictable editorial structures, Hijacked s aesthetic is driven by the mindset and energy of young and emerging practitioners. Embracing the prevailing wanderlust of their generation, their work exhibits a fascination with international subcultures, fragmented trends, alternate life styles and urban landscapes. The exploration of suburban pleasures is placed on par with high artistic experimentation. Just as remarkable as the publication itself is the story of how it came about. Mark McPherson, an emerging WA photographer, initially conceived the project as a zine. Five years on, working from suburban Fremantle, Western Australia, Hijacked had grown through informal online networks to bring the work of 44 Australian and US artists into a substantial casebound coffee-table book. Relentless in its ambition, much like the photographers, writers and contemporaries whose work it presents, Hijacked is a hybrid of real time photography and life in real time