BLACK CELEBRATION (Signed)

Martijn Doolard
BLACK CELEBRATION (Signed)

Photographs: Martijn Doolard

Text: Eric Min

Publisher: Uitgeverij Voetnoot

72 pages

Year: 2007

Price: 30 €

Comments: Softcover, 20,8 x 14,9 cm, b&w photographs. In very good condition other than dirt on the textile cover. Text in English and Dutch. Signed by Martijn Doolard.

"Things were a whole lot simpler in the past. At its best, a painting was a striking reproduction of reality, with a detour by way of brush, paint and inspiration. A photograph was regarded as a true depiction, a carbon copy of what had taken place in front of the lens - even in black and white. Its veracity was increased still more by the magic of proximity: a camera came so close to the reality that its image literally burned itself onto the light-sensitive plate. But what happens when the images play fast and loose with the world? Generations of photographers have distorted, manipulated and staged their subjects. We have had to put up with a lot, from modest cut and paste work and furious image manipulation by totalitarian regimes, through the digital manipulation of motifs. Meaning and truth have become very problematic terms. Photography shows a selected piece of the world, and can deal with it in more or less objective ways, or even put us on the wrong track - it's got to be something like that."

(From the afterword by Eric Min)