Informazioni sul libro
We must have a special way of seeing when we are in stores and supermarkets, one that filters out everything but what it is we're trying to see. Otherwise, how can you explain the fact that shoppers don't have a seizure from the sheer volume of information being thrust at them? Colors, shapes, protruding signs and pictures: as the advertisers have devised new ways to garner our attention, the consumers have, I think, developed new strategies of not seeing, out of pure self-defense.
I was curious to cut a slice from this visual chaos and really look at it, so I decided to focus on just one common element: every image here depicts a different Aisle 3.
What do our places of shopping have to say about us? Whether at our local general store or at Walmart, it's amazing the level of stuff our brain can process and filter in the everyday context of trying to find that one thing you may actually need.
Funzionalità e dettagli
- Categoria principale: Libri d'arte e fotografia
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Formato del progetto: Orizzontale standard, 25×20 cm
N° di pagine: 62 - Data di pubblicazione: ott 11, 2012
- Parole chiave store photography, shopping in USA, indain hill imageworks, local general store, general store vermont, vermont photography, glens falls photography, leica, schaub, walmart, target, kmart
Informazioni sull'autore
One Week One Book is an experimental series created by artist Stephen Schaub in 2013. Each book was conceived of, executed, and sent to print in the course of a single week. A total of twelve books were made in the series. Documentary in style, they combine a visual wit with a strong aesthetic sensibility. Artist Stephen M. Schaub's works have been described as "art dreaming about itself." In them, rather than experiencing a literal place or a linear story, we encounter something akin to the fragmentation of an emotional memory- or the illogic of a dream. Depicting scenes of unresolved narrative, these images seem to have been subjected to the vagaries of perception and the passage of time. Schaub is an innovator whose works defy classification. In his Vermont studio he combines monumentality of scale with light-sensitive techniques and the presentation of works on paper, to create each singular, unique work of art.