SUPER–PRIVATE: Sourcing from the Arab Image Foundation Photographic Collections

From June 22 to July 2, 2015, paula roush, founder of Found Photo Foundation was in residency at the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut. This residency was primarily focused on the sharing archival methodologies used by the Found Photo Foundation in its exhibitions and publications and exploring the potential of the Arab Image Foundation’s photographic collections as source for photobook publishing. This monograp brings for the first time together the research around a particular collection- the EPS collection, including an essay about publishing as artistic and photographic practice presented at ‘The Archive: Visual Culture in the Middle East’ Symposium at the Lebanese American University LAU Byblos campus 2019.

CONTENTS

EPS COLLECTION
9 – 25 Kadisha Valley, by the Cedar Forrest and the Caves
26 – 31 Budapest Airport
32 – 49 Rositta in the hotel room, Budapest and Hamra family home, Beirut 
52 – 61 Beirut Corniche 
62 – 69 Dhour Choueir, RS (self-portrait with friends by the flower curtains)
70 – 72 St. Sebastien Shooting Range 
73 – 80 Andrée, in the Beirut Hippodrome and show jumping
82 – 83 Downtown Beirut. The building where RS worked as a banker at the time he made the photographs in the EPS folders. 
84 – 85 Conversation between the editor (pr) and EPS, who
donated the EPS collection to the Arab Image Foundation
87 – 214 EPS Collection: contents of the two ring-binders stored at the Arab Image Foundation library

ESSAY
215 – 225 Torn, Folded, Curled: Orphan photographs sourced from the Arab Image Foundation. Crafting an archaeology of the recent past, one photobook work at a time
paula roush

DISPLAY
226 – 227 EPS folders at the  Arab Image Foundation library
228 – 237 Torn Folded Curled exhibition at Makan Space
Beirut
238 – 242 infinite multiple exhibitions at Carroll / Fletcher and Arebyte Galleries London

COLOPHON
243 – 244