Aaron Schuman’s SLANT to be published by Mack Books

We are delighted to announce that Mack Books will be publishing Document and Location member Aaron Schuman’s latest project SLANT in April 2019.

In SLANT, Schuman interweaves a selection of bizarre newspaper clippings detailing succinct and extraordinarily anticlimactic accounts of crimes, suspicious activities, events and non-events reported in Amherst, Massachusetts published between 2014-2018, with quietly wry photographs he made within a thirty-mile radius of Amherst from 2016-18, in response to their unintentionally deadpan descriptions. What began as a genuinely affectionate, tongue-in-cheek take on the small towns where Schuman spent his childhood steadily came to reflect the disquieting rise of “fake news”, “alternative facts”, “post-truth” politics and paranoia in America following the 2016 election.

Copies of SLANT signed by the artist are available for pre-order directly from Mack Books here.

SLANT

Aaron Schuman

Silk-screen printed hardback

26 x 22cm

ISBN: 978-1-912339-38-9