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“Give us a Few Negatives of a Thing Worth Seeing”

Walead Beshty is the new current blogger of Fotomuseum Winterthur. In his second post, he offers an interesting way in to the dematerialization of the photographic image and the way this process is perceived in current discourse. Take a moment to engage with Holmes’ quotes from 1859 about the present and future of the stereoscope. Technological dangers never seemed so tangible.

http://blog.fotomuseum.ch/2012/04/2-notes-on-photography-and-loss/#more-725

In rainbows. Just saying (Taken with instagram)

In rainbows. Just saying (Taken with instagram)

Thank you, hyperallergic for posting this! Photograph by Rotem Rozental, initially posted in Rotation The elevator opens up to what could have been a loft, which currently inhabits the Impossible Project. Shelves are stacked up with Polaroid cameras. Smiling employes happily let us walk behind the counter, to look up close at large scale prints of analog experimentations. The factory is in Holland, they explain, where they manufacture analog film and instant film materials. A dying breed which appears to be so lively in the project space. A haven, perhaps, in which a Spice Girls camera can coexist with a Polaroid 600.   Right across from the wall, artist Oskar Landi hangs up works. His exhibition “Also in India,” opened a night later. “Where are you from?”, he asks us. A smile. “From here.” “I’m from Italy,” he replies,”but now I am also from here.” Landi ventured, accompanied by numerous pieces of photographic equipment, to various areas in India, where he tried to capture the unspeakable through the visual. He conducted four journeys across the globe during the last decade. The intriguing result reveal to much at times. Some of the images expose that distinct quality he refers to, captured but undecipherable.  ***As Kodak declared bankruptcy, one cannot help but wonder whether the uncertain future of Polaroid and analog film now lays in the hands of such projects.  

Thank you, hyperallergic for posting this!

Photograph by Rotem Rozental, initially posted in Rotation

The elevator opens up to what could have been a loft, which currently inhabits the Impossible Project. Shelves are stacked up with Polaroid cameras. Smiling employes happily let us walk behind the counter, to look up close at large scale prints of analog experimentations. The factory is in Holland, they explain, where they manufacture analog film and instant film materials. A dying breed which appears to be so lively in the project space. A haven, perhaps, in which a Spice Girls camera can coexist with a Polaroid 600.  

Right across from the wall, artist Oskar Landi hangs up works. His exhibition “Also in India,” opened a night later. “Where are you from?”, he asks us. A smile. “From here.” “I’m from Italy,” he replies,”but now I am also from here.”

Landi ventured, accompanied by numerous pieces of photographic equipment, to various areas in India, where he tried to capture the unspeakable through the visual. He conducted four journeys across the globe during the last decade. The intriguing result reveal to much at times. Some of the images expose that distinct quality he refers to, captured but undecipherable. 

***As Kodak declared bankruptcy, one cannot help but wonder whether the uncertain future of Polaroid and analog film now lays in the hands of such projects.