Replica (luxury edition with a signed C-print)

Lino, Rita; Jurgen Maelfeyt ; Brad Feuerhelm et al.

ISBN 10: 9493146790 / ISBN 13: 9789493146792

Edité par Art Paper Editions, [Gent], 2021

A propos de cet article

Bound in pictorial boards (hardcover), 120p, illustrations (some in color), 29 cm. Very good/fine, clean, crisp, no internal marks. First edition of 750 of which 200 with a signed and numbered C-print (#57/100).

N° de réf. du vendeur JHJ_2024_07_2_5

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Replica (luxury edition with a signed C-print)
• Éditeur: Art Paper Editions, [Gent]
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 9493146790
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789493146792
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Photography

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

.Ce volume présente le travail de la photographe portugaise Rita Lino (1986) concentré autour de l'exploration de soi, du corps, de l'étude de la sexualité et de la féminité.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

‘Replica’ suggest a new reading of the body and the model as a pure image, a pure tool, without referring to any representative identity, hereby ignoring today’s contemporary society of what the self should be. Lino refers strongly to American mid-century photographer William Mortensen, who states that a body is simply considered to be “a machine that needs adjustments.” According to Mortensen the body must be the basis, “representation of personality and emotion […] are irrelevant and misleading”. There is a certain dehumanization in Mortensen’s approach to the model, a return of the body to an object without meaning, in front of the camera. Mortensen saw models as clay that form the image, a body was articulated only by the operator’s intention. He wanted to strip the figure from its emotion and personality, so that we, as an audience, could consider the body as a formed prop and stare at the image as the essence, and not the subject. In Lino’s case she is the model, the operator / photographer, the subject and the image at the same time. She is in complete control. She found a way to remove herself from representation and reduced her own body to a pure object and image, almost like a machine. ‘Replica’ is a manifestation of the artist’s understanding of her role in front of and behind the camera. ‘Replica’ is a prescient of an approaching future in which identity will surrender to the carefree machine of image magnification.