Necessary Fictions
"Cornwall's photographs wound and disturb and disorient, and they are morally binding."
—From the essay, "This Picture Might Save Your Life," by Sarah Sentilles.
Radius Books, 2020
Hardcover | 9x12 in.
105 photographs | 324 pages with inserts
ISBN: 978-1-942185-69-7
A look at American state-created realities:
what are the stories we are told,
the games we play, to manage
unsettling truths in a time of turmoil?
Photographs and text by Debi Cornwall
Poetry by Nomi Stone
Original fiction by Roy Scranton
Essays by Makeda Best and Sarah Sentilles
$55 | signed $60 | Order here at Radius Books
special edition $600
with choice of 12x18-inch prints
(options and order link on next page)
Watch a launch event with Tate Modern Senior Curator of International Art (Photography) Yasufumi Nakamori and Harvard Art Museums Curator of Photographs Makeda Best, here.
Nominated on the longlist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.
Shortlisted for the Photo-Text Award at les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles and the Lucie Photo Book Prize.
Publication made possible thanks to the generosity of the Lannan Foundation and Furthermore, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.