Promise Land

Gregory Eddi Jones

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CONDITION & NOTES
Near Fine

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Hardcover

2021

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

English

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
SPBH Editions 25 x 20 x 2.5 cm
CONDITION
Near Fine

TYPE
Hardcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2021

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
SPBH Editions

DIMENSIONS
25 x 20 x 2.5 cm

ABOUT

A visual poetic epic by Philadelphia-based artist Gregory Eddi Jones (born 1986), Promise Land reimagines the function of photography. Using T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece The Waste Land as its point of departure, the book presents a sequence of images, picking up where the poem left off nearly 100 years ago.


Borrowing from Eliot’s strategies of literary allusion and fragmented, collage-like narrative, Jones pulls inspiration from a range of photographic and artistic processes and traditions. Using stock and advertising photographs as his source material, he employs strategies of digital composite and physical ink manipulation to craft a new kind of picture―one untethered from the traditional burdens of photography’s relationships to truth. The resulting sequence forms a visual symphony, composed of nearly 200 images, in harmony with a fracturing, “post-truth” contemporary world.