THROUGH
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THROUGH
By Emidio Puglielli
47 images (96 pages)
ISBN: 978 0 646 53994 2
Size: A5 Postage included.
The back of a photograph is an interesting site. Its prime function is to support the emulsion, but on this surface we can also find contextual support for the image. All of us have flipped snap-shots over to see if anything is written there. We may find names or the nature of the occasion; our memories are not as reliable as we would like them to be and these little notes can trigger details about a situation we have all but forgotten. There are also machine marks, dates, locations, studio and artists logos that locate the image further.
This book is a collection of images from Emidio Puglielli’s THROUGH series where he takes both sides of an old photograph and presents them simultaneously as if looking through it. What occurs is a melding of context. We get the image on the front and the text on the back presented at the same time; a compression of time and space occurs; a little history of this photograph is presented for the viewer. What we find is that this type of documentation, at a distance from the author, changes from a specific memory reference to a generic one. It is quite useless as a context for that particular image, but allows us to plug in our own references, histories and contexts to connect to the image.
By Emidio Puglielli
47 images (96 pages)
ISBN: 978 0 646 53994 2
Size: A5 Postage included.
The back of a photograph is an interesting site. Its prime function is to support the emulsion, but on this surface we can also find contextual support for the image. All of us have flipped snap-shots over to see if anything is written there. We may find names or the nature of the occasion; our memories are not as reliable as we would like them to be and these little notes can trigger details about a situation we have all but forgotten. There are also machine marks, dates, locations, studio and artists logos that locate the image further.
This book is a collection of images from Emidio Puglielli’s THROUGH series where he takes both sides of an old photograph and presents them simultaneously as if looking through it. What occurs is a melding of context. We get the image on the front and the text on the back presented at the same time; a compression of time and space occurs; a little history of this photograph is presented for the viewer. What we find is that this type of documentation, at a distance from the author, changes from a specific memory reference to a generic one. It is quite useless as a context for that particular image, but allows us to plug in our own references, histories and contexts to connect to the image.
