Title: I must Behave
Photographer: Bruce Connew
Date of publication: 2009
Place of Publication: New Zealand
Language: English
Dimensions of book: 16.7 x 12.7 cm
Number of pages: 132
Edition size: 600
Publisher: Vapour Momenta Books
Design: Catherine Griffiths and Bruce Connew
Printer: EBS
ISBN: 978-0-473-14629-0
Retail price: $85 NZ or $190 NZ with archival pigment print of image #1
Summary of Project:
‘I Must Behave’ was published by Vapour Momenta Books, the pocket-sized publishing arm of Catherine Griffiths and Bruce Connew. It is the second volume in a social and political trilogy of artist books: ‘I Saw You’, 2007; ‘I Must Behave’, 2009; ‘I Drive You Crazy, to the Moon’, which is soon to be published.
“This is an unsettling observation of the experience of globalisation: where we are, who we are and what we are, we can’t quite say. Perhaps the sense of anxiety and disconnection apparent in these images is also a manifestation of the personal and social controls and restrictions we submit ourselves to.” Deidra Sullivan