TORNADO in LensCulture's Favorite Photobooks 2025

TORNADO by Jackie Furtado + Jennifer Haare listed in LensCulture’s Favorite Photobooks 2025

A collaboration between Jackie Furtado and Jennifer Haare, this book follows the journey of Tornado, a mustang making its way through the Sonoran Desert. With its roots in early moving image experimentation pioneered by Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, who were concerned with capturing the unseen moment a horse’s hooves leave the ground, the book is composed of stills taken from GoPro footage. Unlike the exacting, scientific gaze of its predecessors, Tornado takes us on a wild ride; the camera is strapped to the belly of the horse, producing a series of dizzying images marked by motion blur, grit, sand, pixels—a chaotic undoing of the desire to capture, control, measure embedded in the photographic gesture. After journeying through the book, whose sequence can be animated like a flip book, we discover a playful text by Kim Beil that frames a series of moments in the life of Eadweard Muybridge in the form of tableaux.
- Sophie Wright, Writer

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