Orders receive a complimentary 'Keep Looking' bumper sticker! TORNADOJackie Furtado + Jennifer Haare with 'The Horse in Motion: A Tableau Vivant' by Kim Beil Design by Jackie Furtado, Jennifer Haare and Zoe Lemelson Published by Luhz Press, 2025 Softcover with insert booklet18x26 cm / 7.125x10.25 inches208 pages, 192 platesEdition of 1000 979-8-9914128-2-7 TORNADO showcases a mustang’s journey in the Sonoran Desert through a careful sequence of GoPro film stills, examining time, motion and its trance-like quality by way of consumer technology. The debut photobook from artists Jackie Furtado and Jennifer Haare makes photography a subject to consider. Through formal experimentation, the book engages with photography’s technological history and questions the medium’s insatiable desire to see, capture, and control. Sequencing film stills derived from Furtado and Haare’s experimental film, Valley Fever, the book follows the movement of a horse named Tornado, captured by a camera suspended from the horse’s belly. A motion study in book form, the photographs begin to spiral through the book’s layout like a slow-moving tornado as the images succeed into abstraction. Hooves and legs warp into elongated forms, the horse’s belly morphs into a darkened landscape, and bits of sand, gravel, and water cloud each image thereafter, rendering pixels like paint. Emerging from the final pages as a playbill, ‘The Horse in Motion: A Tableau Vivant’ by writer and art historian Kim Beil playfully contextualizes the project in early photographic and cinematic history. A sparse poetic text by Jennifer Haare follows, evoking a fragmented narrative of self-discovery within the American mythos of “going west”. TORNADO ends with an index of timecodes, offering insight into the image sequences’ (de)construction of time. The replication of the horse’s path on the page in TORNADO echoes Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies, but diverges from the scientific study of Muybridge’s “The Horse in Motion” by exploring photography’s construction of truth. Marketed as a tool to capture extreme, previously unattainable images with the promise of authenticity, the GoPro lays bare truth only in the moments of lost control as the action camera fails under the desert’s elemental conditions and influence of speed. While Muybridge used photography’s ability to depict likeness as an assertion of truth, the freedom of Tornado is felt in the increasingly unrecognizable image. Please note there is a Collector's Edition of TORNADO. To inquire, please email [email protected]
