Thanks so much for sharing! Love this book. It’s very challenging and the photos are jarring but also beautiful. Definitely one of my favorites to flip through if I need a little inspiration. Would love to hear your thoughts on Ravens by Masahisa Fukase, if that’s available to you. Keep it up!
Thanks for watching! Yes, some of the photographs almost feel like crime scene investigations and the black and white tones can be ominous. Thank you for the recommendation, especially because that book wasn't on my radar. It looks different from any other book I've covered, and very interesting.
Great example of repurpose and remediation. It’s interesting how this shift in modality almost creates a new purpose ex nihilo. The title is so appropriate and lends itself to defend itself against anyone who would oppose their ownership of the images since technically no one owns evidence. It’s as if there is a balancing act happening that these creators are aware of and pointing to. Great review!
You know, I've always known the title of the book, of course but I had taken it for granted. It's certainly reinforcing this idea that there's no creativity, necessarily, coming from the pictures themselves but only from the grouping of the pictures.
I own a book called “Midcentury Memories. The Anonymous Project”, and its an another great example of appropriation. Its a compilation of anonymous family photos of random people of shot on Kodachrome. Flipping though these photographs gives you quite a strange feeling of false memories, like an opposite of deja vu. Maybe you’ll find that interesting too.
Here’s the publisher’s description: 50 years ago, people used film cameras just as we use smartphones in the age of Instagram. They photographed their meals, holidays, loved ones, celebrations, and family reunions. Imagining the past lives of these strangers is the beauty and mystery of The Anonymous Project, which curates just under 300 images from this vast collection of 700,000+ Kodachrome slides. The places, dates, and people may be unknown, but the stories in these snapshots are universally familiar.
There are reviews of it on UA-cam but the ones I watched were kinda more focused on aesthetics and the personal feelings this book evoked. If you could analyze it from a point of artist or an art critic, that would be cool :)
After looking this book up, it's rather beautifully printed and designed. So thank you for the recommendation! That would be a great example to talk about photobooks that are artist books and photobooks that are catalogues or albums. Your comment on the false memories is an interesting one. Photography seems to be peculiar amongst all the mediums of art in how it's capable of creating false memories. The family snapshot must be a huge reason for that.
In that series there is a photograph of what appears to be a symbiosis between human skin and other elements such as leather. I think it's one of the most disturbing photographs I've ever seen. I would really like to know its context. Do you have some kind of theory about his explanation?
Yes, that specific photograph is one of the more unnerving. I noticed that students in my classes catch this one more than others. I believe that the leather gloved hand is holding down a primate of some time and they're photographing the animal's skin. The leather glove would make sense for protection when handling an animal and monkey's skin is similar to a human's.
@@ThePhotobookReview Omg! you are absolutely right! It must be some kind of primate. The primate's position makes the whole image look so weird, and the black and white doesn't help much by creating an optical illusion where everything appears to be part of the same skin unit.
Love this book. Nothing is done for art but it is.
You bet Marc! Happy to hear you appreciate the book.
Thank you!
Thanks so much for sharing! Love this book. It’s very challenging and the photos are jarring but also beautiful. Definitely one of my favorites to flip through if I need a little inspiration. Would love to hear your thoughts on Ravens by Masahisa Fukase, if that’s available to you. Keep it up!
Thanks for watching! Yes, some of the photographs almost feel like crime scene investigations and the black and white tones can be ominous. Thank you for the recommendation, especially because that book wasn't on my radar. It looks different from any other book I've covered, and very interesting.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing
You bet, Morgaidz! Thanks for watching.
very intresting book, thanks for sharing!
You bet! Happy you enjoyed the book and video.
Great job, superb channel!
Thank you very much!
Great example of repurpose and remediation. It’s interesting how this shift in modality almost creates a new purpose ex nihilo. The title is so appropriate and lends itself to defend itself against anyone who would oppose their ownership of the images since technically no one owns evidence. It’s as if there is a balancing act happening that these creators are aware of and pointing to. Great review!
You know, I've always known the title of the book, of course but I had taken it for granted. It's certainly reinforcing this idea that there's no creativity, necessarily, coming from the pictures themselves but only from the grouping of the pictures.
great channel (and great book) - keep it up! :)
Thank you Karl! I'm overdue for my next one on Justine Kurland
I own a book called “Midcentury Memories. The Anonymous Project”, and its an another great example of appropriation. Its a compilation of anonymous family photos of random people of shot on Kodachrome. Flipping though these photographs gives you quite a strange feeling of false memories, like an opposite of deja vu. Maybe you’ll find that interesting too.
Here’s the publisher’s description:
50 years ago, people used film cameras just as we use smartphones in the age of Instagram. They photographed their meals, holidays, loved ones, celebrations, and family reunions. Imagining the past lives of these strangers is the beauty and mystery of The Anonymous Project, which curates just under 300 images from this vast collection of 700,000+ Kodachrome slides. The places, dates, and people may be unknown, but the stories in these snapshots are universally familiar.
There are reviews of it on UA-cam but the ones I watched were kinda more focused on aesthetics and the personal feelings this book evoked. If you could analyze it from a point of artist or an art critic, that would be cool :)
After looking this book up, it's rather beautifully printed and designed. So thank you for the recommendation! That would be a great example to talk about photobooks that are artist books and photobooks that are catalogues or albums. Your comment on the false memories is an interesting one. Photography seems to be peculiar amongst all the mediums of art in how it's capable of creating false memories. The family snapshot must be a huge reason for that.
In that series there is a photograph of what appears to be a symbiosis between human skin and other elements such as leather. I think it's one of the most disturbing photographs I've ever seen. I would really like to know its context. Do you have some kind of theory about his explanation?
Yes, that specific photograph is one of the more unnerving. I noticed that students in my classes catch this one more than others. I believe that the leather gloved hand is holding down a primate of some time and they're photographing the animal's skin. The leather glove would make sense for protection when handling an animal and monkey's skin is similar to a human's.
@@ThePhotobookReview Omg! you are absolutely right! It must be some kind of primate. The primate's position makes the whole image look so weird, and the black and white doesn't help much by creating an optical illusion where everything appears to be part of the same skin unit.
Vernacular photographs
That's a great summary of the concept of the book!