{"product_id":"sebastian-stadler-a-close-up-of-a-large-rock-i-think","title":"Sebastian Stadler — A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think","description":"\u003cp\u003eSebastian Stadler’s book work A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think combines the artist’s photographic work L’apparition, 2015–2019 with text generated by image-recognition software.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach of the images, whether single or in a series, is a double exposure composition: a relatively generic scene or location is merged with a digital texture or surface. This combination sometimes punctures the image; on occasion it barely makes the viewer aware of the artifice of the reproduction. The photographs are combined with two forms of text: either a tentative description, like the book title, or what reads like an unmoored quotation. Both have been generated or sourced by an image-recognition algorithm that Stadler has employed in other works; this has been fed the images of L’apparation. The algorithm first presents its findings with the modest addendum ‘I think’. In a second step this has been cross-referenced with a huge text database, the Project Gutenberg digital library, in order to source unrelated quotations that accord with the image content identified. A screen-printed mylar cover around the publication further articulates the image-layering process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wolf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53279111545175,"sku":"BOO 3131 U","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0503\/4914\/6272\/files\/3131-1_d81eb036-f648-46d2-adb1-69a54a7e300a.jpg?v=1775820521","url":"https:\/\/www.wolf-books.com\/products\/sebastian-stadler-a-close-up-of-a-large-rock-i-think","provider":"Wolf Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}