Publication

2013 - Steidl Druckerei und Verlag, Gerhard

Language

English

Word Count

122,000 words, Guess

Page Count

488 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783869305394
  • ISBN-103869305398
  • OCLC Control Number795763093
  • Better World Books9783869305394
  • Open LibraryOL28488649M

Classifications

  • LCCTR647
  • LCCTR647.S836 A4 2012
  • LCCN7396.S83 A4 2012

Description

"Retinal Shift is the catalogue for Mikhael Subotzky's 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Exhibition. [It] investigates the practice and mechanics of looking- in relation to the history of Grahamstown [South Africa], the history of photographic devices, and Subotzky's own history as an artist. The works draw on archival portraits from the last century, found surveillance footage, as well as Subotzky's own photographs from various series that he re-contextualizes. The opening work in the book is a self-portrait that Subotzky made with the assistance of an optometrist. High-resolution images of his left and right retinas sit side by side. Says Subotzky: "I was fascinated by this encounter. At the moment that my retinas, parts of my essential organs of seeing, were photographed, I was blinded by the apparatus that made the images."--Publisher's website.

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