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The series "Body Double" is a portrait of Los Angeles - not the actual city in California, but the abstract place which is embedded in the general consciousness through the representation in popular culture, primarily in movies. “Body Double” is a hike through the streets of the metropolis, partly based on appropriated images - from Google Street View, films, or vintage imagery - partly actually photographed on location in Los Angeles. Almost nothing here is what it appears to be at first glance - the sculptures photographed in the streets as well as in hotel rooms were never in the indicated places, the images are partly automatically deconstructed or created by software; the majority of the works were created in several steps that took place outside and inside the studio.

Every picture questions and discusses its conditions of production, the authenticity of what is shown, and the unconscious expectations and experiences that one brings to the table when looking at an image.

“Body Double is a book long portrait of Los Angeles made with appropriated images, constructed images, sculpted images and manifested experiences in conversation with elements, fragments of possible memories coexisting with real deconstructions, and real uncertainties glueing it all together. It takes the viewer on a dazed walk through a city’s self and its double, all filtered by the multitude of versions we might experience of it, or we definitely did experience of it, if only through a possible, unrealistic memory.” Elisa Medde

First edition of 500 copies, hardcover with dust jacket, 210mm × 280mm, 132 pages, 73 colour images, with a text by Elisa Medde ISBN-978-3-200-08668-5 https://samepaper.com/Body-Double

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*2022年5月30日再入荷しました。

2021年7月12日

【新入荷・新本】

Still Life, Same Paper, 2020

246 pages. 210mm*270mm*24mm. Edition of 900 Copies. CMYK Four Color Printing. Codex Binding Paperback with PVC Jacket.

価格：6,050円（税込）

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混沌と不安の中にいると、何かをしたいという気持ちが強くなります。今年（2020年）のはじめに家の中に閉じこもっていたときの退屈さによって、この新しい写真集プロジェクト「Still Life」ははじまりました。2020年、どこにいようとも、誰もが似たような、しかし同じではない苦境を経験しました。現実に束縛されたり、退屈や不安との戦いに巻き込まれたりしたときに、写真を撮るというきっかけがなければ、写真家のレンズはどこへ向かうのだろうと考えずにはいられませんでした。「写真」というものはそれでも存在するのだろうかと。

そこで、わたしたちが注目している写真家に声をかけました。今回のプロジェクトでは、写真家たちが自由に選んだテーマに介入が加えられ、それぞれの写真家は限られた機材を使って室内でストーリーを作り上げる必要があります。その結果として、写真コレクティブの「Still Life」には、世界中のさまざまな写真家による13の作品が収められることになりました。

タイトルの「Still Life」は、西洋美術の主要なジャンルに由来しており、そこには「生命は静止している」という美しい意味が込められています。この写真集における「Still Life」は、この苦境の中で生き続ける状態のメタファーとして考えられています。パンデミックの文脈では、わたしたちは比較的静止した状態にあるのです。

When we are in chaos and anxiety, the urge to do something becomes stronger. So to speak, the boredom of being locked inside early this year prompted this new photo book project, Still Life. In 2020, no matter where we are, we all experienced a similar but not the same predicament. When photographers are constrained by reality, or caught in a battle with boredom and anxiety, we couldn’t help it wonder, without the trigger points of taking photographs, where would their lens go? Will ‘photography’ still happen?

We invited photographers we’ve been closely watching. In this project, an intervention has been imposed onto their freely selected topics, each photographer needs to create their stories indoors using limited equipment. As a result, the photographic collective Still Life includes 13 works from different photographers around the world.

The title Still Life comes from the principal genre of Western art, which was endowed with a beautiful meaning — life is still. Here in this book, ‘Still Life’ is considered as a metaphor for the state of continuing living in this predicament — in the context of the pandemic, a relatively still state we are all in.

Photographers: Antje Peters, Bobby Doherty, Caroline Tompkins, Charles Negre, David Brandon Geeting, Geray Mena, Harley Weir, Makoto Oono, Peng Ke, Sergiy Barchuk, Sophie Tianxin Chen, Thomas Albdorf, Xiaopeng Yuan.

Director: Xiaopeng Yuan Edit: Xiaopeng Yuan, Jiawei Liu Contributing Edit: QiuQiu, Yixin Design: Han Gao

http://www.samepaper.com/

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Thomas Albdorf

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Still from Flowers Were Waiting On The Balcony Of The Room, So Beautiful!, by Thomas Albdorf

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Apparition, Thomas Albdorf

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From „a miss is as good as a mile“ (2018) by Thomas Albdorf

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Jenny Holzer for Wall Street Journal Magazine photographed by Annemarieke van Drimmelen (2022)

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she's just like me for real 😌

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PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT JENNY HOLZER | 1983–85 [hat: polyester & embroidery | 5 × 9"]

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Jenny Holzer, With You Inside Me Comes the Knowledge of My Death, 1994, Silver snake ring with inscription, sterling silver, 925/000, matt, centrifugal cast, hand-finished, in custom felt-lined wooden case1 5/8 × 3 3/8 × 2 1/8 in | 4.1 × 8.6 × 5.4 cm

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