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      What You See
      Luciano Rigolini

      Design: Integral Lars Müller
      2008 | English/German/French/Japanese | 12 x 16 cm | 192 pages | 107 photographs | hardcover
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Anonymous snapshots are the ideal projection screen: they inspire the imagination to invent stories. The photographer and artist Luciano Rigolini demonstrates, however, that these images, freed from their context, can also convey a visual experience.
Rigolini pieces together his findings from flea markets, archives, or the Internet to create a new, independent work - a grammar of seeing and perception. Consciously or unconsciously, we become primarily aware of form and structure in the compiled snapshots, and the specific content of the images becomes inessential. This results in a fascinating aesthetic play that radically questions our habits of seeing. In this cleverly arranged sequence the photographs can no longer be read as simply likenesses of reality. They turn out to be artifacts that construct reality. What You See presents a multiplicity of surprising, confusing, and surreal photographs from a rich fund of anonymous photography.

作者不明のスナップショットほど想像力をかき立てられるものはない。写真家兼アーティストLuciano Rigoliniは、これらの写真が文脈から切り離されているにも関わらず、視覚的経験を伝える事が出来ると実証する。
フリーマーケットや公文書、インターネット上で見つけてきた写真をつなぎ合わせ、新しく独立した作品を作りだす。見るものは編集されたスナップショットに込められた構造を、意識的にか無意識的にか認識しはじめ、写真の文脈は必要なくなるのだ。その結果この一連の写真から読み取れるものは単なる現実ではなく、作られた現実と化したものとなるのだ。
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