First edition. 24 x 29 cm. 160 pages. Original Hardcover. Includes for example the following chapters: Rewind and Fast-forward: Photography, Allegory and Palimpsest / Natural Histories / Museum and Medium: The Time of Karen Knorr's imagery, etc. Including essays and an interview with Karen Knorr, this extensively illustrated text is a comprehensive overview of the photographer's work from the 1990s to 2002. Knorr's photographs explore with wit and humour the patronage and heritage that informs our ideas of art and national identity, with images taken at historical art collections and stately homes, and new developments using sound, installation and video. Knorr has been making photographs since the early 1980s, using a documentary style that recalls earlier traditions of portraiture and painting signed with dedication