{"product_id":"the-axe-will-survive-the-master","title":"The Axe Will Survive the Master","description":"The culminating volume in a celebrated trilogy that began with General Assembly\n(2012) and Fire in Cairo (2015), the latter of which won the ICP Infinity Award\nThis landmark project spans twelve years of photography made in sites of\nhistorical transformation – Ukraine, North Korea, Hong Kong, Egypt, and the\nUnited States – offering an unconventional meditation on power and resistance at\na moment when authoritarianism is on the rise globally Matthew Connors is\nProfessor and Chair of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and\nDesign and was featured in ‘Being: New Photography 2018’ at MoMA The Axe Will\nSurvive the Master is an oblique record of life on a faltering planet. Created\nover twelve years and across continents, Matthew Connors’s photographs trace the\ncontours of an era shaped by confrontations with authoritarian power. From the\nArab Spring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Connors traverses scenes of\nglobal upheaval marked by disintegrating social contracts, political violence,\nand the lingering reverberations of the Cold War. Bringing together photographs\nmade between 2013 and 2025, this volume concludes a trilogy – following General\nAssembly (2013) and Fire in Cairo (2015) – meditating on power, resistance, and\nthe fragile fate of democratic ideals. His images move between the geopolitical\nand the intimate, drawn as much from the fabric of daily life as from the front\nlines of history. They depict a world defined by conflict and uncertainty, yet\ncharged with beauty, threat, and consequence. Connors distils this vast,\nlong-term observation into a single, haunting sequence, forming a work that asks\nhow images can bear witness to fracture and endurance. The Axe Will Survive the\nMaster stands as the culmination of a major body of work: a lyrical reflection\non sur","brand":"ART AND PAPER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52592980787509,"sku":"9781917651455","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0870\/9023\/3653\/files\/121854b5-ef33-49f8-9068-582a8e2da747.jpg?v=1776421244","url":"https:\/\/librairiesanstitre.com\/products\/the-axe-will-survive-the-master","provider":"librairie sans titre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}