Necessary Fictions
"Cornwall's photographs wound and disturb and disorient, and they are morally binding."
—From the essay, "This Picture Might Save Your Life," by Sarah Sentilles.
Radius Books, 2020
Hardcover | 9x12 in.
105 photographs | 324 pages with inserts
ISBN: 978-1-942185-69-7
American state-created realities:
what are the stories we are told, the
games we play, to manage unsettling
truths in a time of turmoil?
Photos and text by Debi Cornwall.
Poetry by Nomi Stone. Original fiction by Roy Scranton.
Essays by Makeda Best and Sarah Sentilles.
$55 | signed $60 | Order at Radius Books
special edition $600 with choice of 12x18-inch prints
(options and order link on next page)
Watch the launch with Tate Modern Senior Curator of International Art (Photography) Yasufumi Nakamori
and Harvard Art Museums Curator of Photographs Makeda Best, here.
Shortlisted for the Photo-Text Award at les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles and the Lucie Photo Book Prize. Publication made possible thanks to the generosity of the Lannan Foundation and Furthermore, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.