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Times Square

Title: Times Square / Fotografie & Gestaltung, Ines von Ketelhodt.
Author: Ketelhodt, Ines v.
Publication: Flörsheim am Main : Ines von Ketelhodt, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Barthes, Roland

Description

3 volumes : chiefly color illustrations; 29 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Photobooks.
Pictorial works.

Note

Issued in slipcase (31 cm).
Photographs were taken on May 5, 2014, in New York City.
Texts printed from polymer templates; photographs are digital prints.
Text by Roland Barthes. Times Square 1 text excerpted from: La chambre claire : note sur la photographie (Paris : Gallimard/Le Seuil, 1980); Times Square 2 text from its German translation (Die helle Kammer : Bemerkung zur Photographie (Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp Verlag, 1998); Times Square 3 text from its English translation (Camera lucida : reflections on photography (New York : Hill and Wang, 1981), "Madness, pity." All 3 texts reflect the same passage in 3 languages.
All 3 parts issued in an edition of 40 copies, each part numbered and signed by the book artist.
Photographs digitally printed on opaque paper. Texts printed letterpress with polymer plates onto glassine paper. Three booklets in a slipcase (cardboard and black painted wood strips), flush-covers with linen spine, and embossed titles.--Vendor description
"The three booklets contain photographs which were taken with long exposure times on May 5, 2014 at Times Square in New York. Because of these long exposures, light, time, the position of objects and their movement within the frame accumulate. It captures time in a way that we cannot normally perceive it. A cinematic sequence is generated by turning the pages of all three volumes in parallel. Each booklet starts with a motto by Roland Barthes from Camera Lucida. Reflections on Photography: volume 1 in French original, volume 2 in German translation, volume 3 in English translation : "The image, says phenomenology, is an object-as-nothing. Now, in the Photograph, what I posit is not only the absence of the object; it is also, by one and the same movement, on equal terms, the fact that this object has indeed existed and that it has been there where I see it. Here is where the madness is, for until this day no representation could assure me of the past of a thing except by intermediaries; but with the Photograph, my certainty is immediate: no one in the world can undeceive me. The Photograph then becomes a bizarre medium, a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest, shared hallucination (on the one hand 'it is not there, ' on the other 'but is has indeed been'): a mad image, chafed by reality."
Limited edition of 40 copies.

Language (note)

Text in German, French, and English.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 2014 22-547

OCLC

1124770411

Author

Ketelhodt, Ines v., book artist, photographer.

Title

Times Square / Fotografie & Gestaltung, Ines von Ketelhodt.

Publisher

Flörsheim am Main : Ines von Ketelhodt, 2014.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Text in German, French, and English.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 13, signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Place of Publication

Germany Flörsheim

Added Author

Barthes, Roland, author in quotations or text abstracts.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 2014 22-547

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