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Écrire avec le soleil

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:47:03 +0000

Écrire avec le soleil is an artist’s book designed by Sandrine Marc to present the work done during her research and creation residency at the Musée Nicéphore-Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône. The sequence of images explores the physical manifestations of light and takes a look at the recording media of the photographic medium since its invention, from… Continue reading Écrire avec le soleil

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The Perfect Crime: Concerning The Murder Of Reality

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:42:42 +0000

Germany is a crime fiction country. If wanted, fictional murder and manslaughter can be witnessed many times a day throughout the main television networks. There are more than 238 crime series available on Germany’s six largest broadcasting channels. Based on the overrepresentation of fictional murder on German television, The Perfect Crime investigates the effect of crime series on our perception and behaviour. The work examines the use of imaging techniques within police work and its epistemic implications, as well as the question of how fictional narratives change our perception of reality.

The work combines several photographic techniques and approaches: Staiger and Uchtmann have made photographs on the film sets of German crime series, overstageing scenes, leading to an abstraction of what is depicted contrasted with supposedly authentic imagery of corpses and crime scenes. In the portrait series various actors, who played victims and perpetrators in German crime series have been altered by artificial intelligence to create new possible versions of them, linked to the creation of phantom images in real police work. Furthermore, locations that has served as a movie set for a fictional crime scenes are documented as 3D reconstructions via photogrammetric methods.

In the book, the artistic examination is complemented with texts by Karen Fromm, Image Traces: Forensic Media and the Documentary Gaze, and sociologists Aldo Legnaro and Andrea Kretschmann, Crime narratives as narratives of order. (https://kultbooks.com/)

German Photobook Award Bronze Winner (Dummy) 2023

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Catalogue

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:30:53 +0000

Catalogue began as a visual and humorous exploration of Helmut Newton’s SUMO book project, a “monumental milestone that surpassed everything that had been technically and conceptually dared up to that point” (Taschen, 1999). Catalogue is a book-object, a catalog of Peter’s own work, a product catalog for the object, that viewers or potential buyers hold in their hands and an artist’s book that thematizes the catalog itself.

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CYTTER.log

Robert Schlotter — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:24:20 +0000

A little over two years ago, Christian Doeller founded the CYTTER.datalab – a speculative data laboratory where humans, machines, and algorithms work on digital translations of physical objects. The artist’s book CYTTER.log is the associated lab report. It contains an archive of all translated objects, an overview of processes, modules, and installations, as well as… Continue reading CYTTER.log

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Cinéma

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:40:25 +0000

Cinéma is the publication to an earlier work, a film with the same name, Marte Aas directed in 2010. „Cinéma escorts you through the history of film, passing the chronophotography of Edward Muybridge, the Lumière-brothers’ The Serpentine Dance (1898) and Richard Serra’s Hand Catching Lead (1968). Cinéma informs you of how modern man treats movement. It shows how the gaze of the film has become our own, how we have internalized its double approach — from behind and in front of the camera lens — and unconsciously made it ours. At the same time, Cinéma disturbs the acquired obviousness in our way of seeing. It is undoubtedly a performance on film.“ — Marit Paasche

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Das Objekt

Robert Schlotter — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 21:46:21 +0000

The book series DAS OBJEKT is a critical and subjective reflection of icons and symbols used in photo handbooks to illustrate optical laws for photographers and those interested in photography. The 40 illustrations in this artist’s book reproduced in chronological order, are extracted from manuals published in Germany (Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, GDR, FRG) between 1928 and 2003. Through the detachment of their original context, these motifs reveal social developments, ideologies, and ideals – visualized by the respective creators – addressed to their imagined readership. Developments in the field of printing technology and industrial book printing resonate with developments within graphic design.

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NORMAL – Robert Olson

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:37:42 +0000

This swirl refers to a schematic representation of a color chart used in the 1991 edition of The Joy of Photography, a publication of the Eastman Kodak Company. It makes tangible how Western normative ways of thinking are embedded in the visualization and translation processes of photographic manuals.

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SPEKTRUM*

Katrin Kamrau — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:52:34 +0000

SPEKTRUM * is both, an artist publication and a catalog. SPEKTRUM * uses an open, participatory structure to embrace a triangle relationship between the publication itself, the reader, and the producer. Through reproductions of artworks, interviews, (exhibition-)texts, and exhibition views, the reader can delve into SPEKTRUM* — the artist’s field of interest — to collectively… Continue reading SPEKTRUM*

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Das Objekt

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 17:25:50 +0000

The book series DAS OBJEKT is a critical and subjective reflection of icons and symbols used in photo handbooks to illustrate optical laws for photographers and those interested in photography. The 40 illustrations in this artist’s book reproduced in chronological order, are extracted from manuals published in the Nederlands and in Belgium between 1921 and 2002. Through the detachment of their original context, these motifs reveal social developments, ideologies, and ideals – visualized by the respective creators – addressed to their imagined readership. Developments in the field of printing technology and industrial book printing resonate with developments within graphic design.

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Im Glas

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:17:18 +0000

No. 1 – 10 of Im Glas is issued as numbered & signed collectors edition including a C-print of Slit Backdrop No. One.

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