Description
You can still secure a copy of this book at a reduced pre-publication price up to 19th September. You will be actively supporting the realisation of this independent, community-rooted publication – ensuring that these shared memories and everyday histories find a lasting place in print.
Nothing remained unchanged but the clouds is a compelling artist book by Alan J. Ward, developed through a series of residencies and genuine community collaboration in Grandpré, in the French Ardennes.
What began with German WWI postcards evolved into a dynamic, participatory digital archive – a living repository of memory and material culture that places micro-histories at the heart of collective identity.
Through a vibrant interdisciplinary practice spanning visual art, heritage, and archaeology, Ward reclaims the postcard as both artefact and medium – occupying the charged space between image and text, private memory and public history. This book invites readers to navigate fragmented narratives and visual traces that continue to shape Grandpré’s past, present, and imagined futures.
“The book is a collective effort. It gives voice to local memory, through conversational fragments, postcard transcriptions and stories, it is shaped as much by the community as by myself.” Alan Ward
The book extent is 228 pages, with a hand-stamped soft back cover with dust jacket. Texts by Alan Ward, Dr Corinne Painter (Leeds), and Lara-Marie Hägerling (Braunschweig). It is in French, English, and German.
Format 210 x 190 portrait. Full colour throughout with tip-in pages and a unique set of postcard artworks. UK Shipping week of 29th September.
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