{"product_id":"thomas-albdorf-general-view","title":"Thomas Albdorf — General View","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGeneral View investigates conceptions of a new reality that continuously departs from the indexical referent towards an ever-changing rendering of a world that is yet still routed in the photographic image.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by photographs of Yosemite National Park – one of the most intensely mediated nature sites on earth, the series toys with the question regarding the necessity of traveling to a place that has been photographed innumerable times, the need to record additional photographs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf countless images of a specific place are downloadable or can be screenshot, have I been there already?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe series concentrates on the reenactment of glitches on Google Street View; in a gesture similar to the concepts of Warhol‘s Brillo Box or Fischli \u0026amp; Weiss‘ reversed Ready-mades, the malfunctions are appropriated and reenacted via pre- and post-photographic processes – to test their sculptural qualities, their ability to become an autonomous entity, potentially independent from their indexical referents.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe unintended glitches (as well as the originally intended blurs to conceal faces or car plates) appear as a trace of the algorithmic merging and altering of photographic images without direct human control; an early potential glimpse into, a herald for a post-human understanding of the concept of the image or its redundancy and disappearance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wolf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55476386464087,"sku":"BOO 4380 U","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0503\/4914\/6272\/files\/4380-1.jpg?v=1792236492","url":"https:\/\/www.wolf-books.com\/products\/thomas-albdorf-general-view","provider":"Wolf Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}