The Wrong Man is an artist book by Liza Lacroix, published by Ligature Press in 2022. The 32-page oversized book (15 × 11 ⅜ in) only includes 13 images, each tipped in, complemented by rough edges and a glassine jacket. The publisher explains how publishing this book began with a get-together:
The first time I met Liza Lacroix she showed me a poorly photocopied still of Jim Carrey leering in The Mask and we talked about how we talk about art. She showed me a telephoto, paparazzi shot of a flabby, pasty Jack Nicholson gesticulating wildly on a pleasure boat. A wooly iPhone snap of a Baselitz painting reproduced in a book balanced on her lap. No doubt, there was a “right” way to go about explaining all of this. After doing it for a while, it becomes like a parlor trick. Pick a theory out of the deck. It turned out what we were both interested in was something else. An exegesis that could match the wrongness of these images and the weird, irrepressible feelings that brought us to them.
The Wrong Man was designed by Studio Mathias Clottu and typeset in Berthe (Abyme, 2018). Book photography by Lewis Ronald.
