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Olivier Cablat, "Galaxie"
"Galaxie" is Olivier Cablat's first book and one that brings together various aspects of his work. His study of commercial structures and popular culture led to the series entitled "Discotheques" which documents discotheques around the Mediterranean, their prefabricated building style, and their strategy of adopting names such as "Las Vegas", "Kheops" or “Nitro” in an attempt at extravagance. When we open the book and leaf through it, the first thing we see, however, is a large collection of found photographs that have obviously come from the Internet. Trusting his intuition, Cablat undertook an almost obsessive search for pictures that correspond to the names of the discotheques he photographed. He then allows these pictures to clash on the page. This leads to comical moments but also makes us question our understanding of photography. This is often the case with found photographs, since they prove more difficult to read than art photographs. With this seemingly complicated approach, which is actually easy to understand with the book in hand, the photographer is able to take a new look at the interplay between words and pictures and between names, signs, images and photographs.
www.oliviercablat.com/eng/travaux/galaxie/galaxie-eng.html"
Timothy Prus, Ed Jones, "The Corinthians"
To mark the discontinuation of Kodachrome slide film, the Archive of Modern Conflict brought together 5000 slides that were made during the golden age of Kodak, the 1950s in America. A selection of 250 pictures was made for this finely printed book. The pictures not only are a commentary on "The Americans" by Robert Frank but also take Paul's epistles to the Corinthians as a subtext for satirising American society. The snapshots of family life, which capture the unusual and the ordinary, can be read with a number of subtexts (films, photobooks or religious texts) and thus develop into an uncanny mirror of the archetypes and dreams of our society, too.
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jun/25/corinthians-kodachrome-slideshow-photography", www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jun/25/corinthians-kodachrome-slideshow-photography
19.09.2009
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