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      • Notable Days
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      Pavel Büchler

      Notable Days

      208 pages | Black & white / Spot colour | 145 x 215 mm, Soft cover | 1990 | Edition of 700 copies
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Notable Days is a book that attempts − through the turning of the printed page − to reconfigure time and the calendar. Notable Days presents a “full year of days” though within this year time shifts, days disappear and are re-sequenced suggesting that history is never complete.

The images in the book are enlarged from newspapers revealing the half-tone screen used to print them. The first section presents images of hands taken from photographs of people notable enough to be featured in newspapers; severed from their bodies and their contexts, their meaning is lost. These images are interspersed with a repeated image of a crowd with flags − a demonstration or a celebration?

As the book progresses further images of demonstrations are overlaid until the last pages appear as dense black. The events immortalised here exist in a past that has been edited and reconfigured, reminding us that newspapers and photographs are unreliable in their recounting of history.


本書は、ページをめくることで時間と暦を設定し直すことを試みる本。一年の間に時間や日々は移ろい、消えて行くのだが、ここでは「まる1年」を提示し、再度並べ替えることで、「歴史は完結しない」ということを提案する。
この本のビジュアルイメージには、拡大しハーフトーンのドットが現れた状態の新聞の図版が使われている。最初のセクションでは新聞に特集されるにふさわしい人たちの写真から取った手のイメージが収録されていて、その合間には「デモ」か「祝福」か、どちらの意味合いにも取れる「旗を掲げた群衆」のイメージが繰り返して差し込まれる。過去に起こって、この本の中で再構成されて記念碑的に扱われた出来事は、再び整理された歴史の中では新聞も写真も役に立たないことを思い起こさせる。
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