THE ENCLAVE by Richard Mosse

Aperture, 2013, First edition of a total of 1,000 copies, 240 pp., 9" X 12 1/2", Softcover with dust jacket

Very good + (Bump to bottom fore edge else fine) 

The Enclave "is the culmination of Mosse's efforts to radically rethink traditional representations of conflict photography, drawing on artistic and documentary strategies in equal measure. Shooting with both still and 16 mm cameras, he uses a discontinued military surveillance film, which registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light. Mosse has captured the landscape in disorienting psychedelic hues of scarlet, lavender, cobalt and puce, creating images that are deceptively seductive and alluring. Ultimately, however, the resulting images and film map the otherwise invisible edges of violence, chaos and incommunicable horror of isolated, jungle war zones. At the heart of the project, as Mosse states, is his exploration of the contradictions and limits of art's ability "to represent narratives so painful that they exist beyond language--and photography's capacity to document specific tragedies and communicate them to the world."

-From the publishers description