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A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think

By Sebastian Stadler

A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think Travel

A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think

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Sebastian Stadler’s book work A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think combines the artist’s photographic work L’apparition, 2015–2019 with text generated by image-recognition software. Each of the images, whether single or in a series, is a double exposure composition: a relatively generic scene or location is merged with a digital texture or surface. This combination sometimes punctures the image; on occasion it barely makes the viewer aware of the artifice of the reproduction. The photographs are combined with two forms of text: either a tentative description, like the book title, or what reads like an unmoored quotation. Both have been generated or sourced by an image-recognition algorithm that Stadler has employed in other works; this has been fed the images of L’apparation. The algorithm first presents its findings with the modest addendum ‘I think’. In a second step this has been cross-referenced with a huge text database, the Project Gutenberg digital library, in order to source unrelated quotations that accord with the image content identified. A screen-printed mylar cover around the publication further articulates the image-layering process.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
128
Publication Date:
2021
Publisher:
Kodoji Press
Languages:
Published: English
ISBN10:
3037470984
Minimum Reading Age:
6
Maximum Reading Age:
99
Weight:
630 g
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