The metal structure, created specifically for the Festival Images Vevey, is composed of 22 Plexiglas panels on which images of Grammont are printed. With the installation Range: of Mount Grammont, Penelope Umbrico materializes our relationship to screens, which are both facilitators and obstacles to contemplation. They have become like an extension of ourselves. Whether it's a smartphone, computer or television, we spend more and more time every day with our eyes glued to screens. Limited-edition book published by Conveyor in occasion of Aperture Remix showįestival Images Vevey Biennale, Range: of Mount Grammont, 2020, installation Vevey, Switzerland, UV prints on plexiglass, metal structures You can download Moving Mountains (1850-2012) on iTunes This publication drawing on the format and design of the Master Series, included over seventy-five images out of the hundreds created as part of my process subsequently, I have created an eBook containing over one hundred images, downloadable for free on iTunes from Aperture - note this is Aperture’s first free ebook. Moving Mountains (1850-2012) is a limited-edition book that was created for the exhibition Aperture Remix and published by Conveyor. For the 7 that were not available, we made dark reproductions as placeholders to emphasis the singularity of these prints in contrast to the multiplicity of my iPhone pictures of them. RANGE (1850-2012): of Aperture Masters of Photography, 2012Ībove left and below: Hanging along side the grouping of 87 prints in the exhibition Aperture Remix were 9 vintage prints of the 16 images I used in the Masters of Photography series - there were 16 with mountains – but only 9 were available for loan. After I dowloaded on my iPhone as many camera app as I could find, I then re-photographed the mountains I found in the Masters of Photography Series using their various filters. I chose the Aperture’s Masters of Photography Series. Mountains, Moving (1850-2012): of Aperture Masters of Photography, for Aperture Remix, 2012Īperture Remix invited ten contemporary photographers – Rinko Kawauchi, Vik Muniz, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Martin Parr, Doug Rickard, Viviane Sassen, Alec Soth, Penelope Umbrico, James Welling –to select an Aperture publication that was influential in forming their work, and to pay it artistic homage. Range: of Masters of Photography presents a dialogue between distance and proximity, limited and unlimited, the singular and the multiple, the fixed and the itinerant, the master and the copy.īelow are a few projects and iterations that have developed from Range: of Masters of Photography. These “leaks” are the result of an algorithm loaded into the vacuum of a chip, capable of producing nearly endless variations within the space of a few seconds. If light is the first and foremost element of all photography, the role of light in this context is inverted. Light leaks and chemical burn filters are especially absurd in the context of both analog photography and smart-phone camera technology: ‘master’ photographers would never accept such mistakes in their work, and the impossibility of holes, gaps, spatial volume, or liquid chemical necessary to produce these effects, stands in complete opposition to the very apparatus simulating them. In this work the mountain, the oldest landmark, site of orientation, and spiritual contemplation, becomes unstable, mobile, has no gravity, and changes with each iteration.Ĭentral to this work is the overwhelming number of camera app filters that simulate the mistakes of analogue film photography. The hallucinogenic colors of the camera app filters blend with the disorienting effects of the iPhone’s gravity sensor to dislodge any perception of stability in the mountain, the master (most often gendered as male), or the photographic medium. Photo grain, dot-screen, pixel, and screen resolution collide performing undulating moirés. I downloaded hundreds camera apps for my iPhone to re-photograph the masters’ mountains and process them through the multiple filters of the camera apps. For this project I focus on iconic images of mountains in various online and print media such as Aperture’s Masters of Photography book series. Range: of Masters of Photography considers an analog history of photography within the digital torrent that is its current technological manifestation.
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