size:240 x 320mm
hardcover
104pages
A collection of works by British artist James White. This book features photographs by American artist Mike Mandel and American photographer Larry Sultan, based on Evidence, which was first published in 1977, and features digital collages and manipulations by the author.
Sultan and Mandel used more than 100 US government archives to produce "Evidence." From these, 59 were selected using their own interpretations, edited separately from the original context, and completed as one of the excellent conceptual and classic yet original photographic books. By finding and suggesting surreal contexts within inorganic images intended as functional documents, this work overturns and raises doubts the documentary nature of these images inherently supports, and is a masterpiece with great influence.
Evidence continues to be a reference for paintings using grayscale photographs, a representative technique that made the authors known. In this book, in honor of this renowned project by Sultan and Mandel, the author further weakens the "evidence" of the media of photography, or the evidence, through a process of intervention and pictorial gesture, destroys and reconstructs the surface of the variable image.