Al-Yom (Today) Torn Curled Folded

Description

photographs (of photographs), research, essays and editorial design: paula roush
source archive: arab image foundation, beirut — al-yom collection
text: elie-pierre sabbag (excerpts from L’Ombre d’une ville, paris: buchet chastel, 1994)
research and editorial structure: email correspondence conducted in beirut, 2015

pages: 216
language: english / french

printing: full colour (interior)

paper:
– 120 gsm recycled uncoated (paperback interior)
– 100 gsm uncoated (hardcover interior)

cover:
– 170 gsm uncoated, grayscale printing (paperback)
– adhesive casebound, grayscale printing with matt lamination (hardcover)

binding:
– perfect bound (paperback)
– adhesive casebound (hardcover)

dimensions: 10.5 × 14.8 cm (A6, portrait)
isbn: 978-1-7396192-0-6
third edition: 2026
edition: 500 numbered copies
published by: msdm publications

Al-Yom Today Torn Curled Folded is the third edition (2026) of the artist publication,
and brings together photographs (of photographs), research, essays and editorial design by paula roush, working from the Al-Yom collection at the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut.

The publication incorporates excerpts from L’Ombre d’une ville (Elie-Pierrre Sabbag, Paris: Buchet Chastel, 1994), and is structured through research and editorial correspondence conducted in Beirut in 2015.

This third edition (2026) revisits and re-edits the project as an unstable correspondence — unfolding across image, archive and text. It consolidates the project’s editorial trajectory, maintaining its original correspondence structure while re-articulating the material sequence of images and texts. Working at A6 format (10.5 × 14.8 cm), the book foregrounds scale and intimacy as structural conditions. The bilingual English/French publication extends the project’s transnational framework, situating Beirut-based archival research within a broader circulation of image practices. Each of the 500 numbered copies forms part of an ongoing engagement with the Al-Yom collection and the politics of photographic preservation and re-editing.

Published by msdm publications.
Edition of 500 numbered copies.