P.O.V.

 

A postulate on glace. One of the consequences of the digitalization of human culture is the formation of a universal screen on which optical signs (textimages) fleetingly appear in a ceaseless flux, somewhat like a shifting mist. This screen doesn’t exist, but underlies the existence of all sorts of more or less immaterial surfaces before which we see ourselves pass as silhouettes, just as formerly we saw our figures standing out against city walls or the horizon of fields… The hallucination is a substance: it is the optical fluid the gaze sinks into, as much as the color bathing the objects and characters. Alejandro Gomez de Tuddo isolates the distillates of this substance…

Joseph Mouton

 

Book

Photographs	Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo
Foreword	Joseph Mouton
Pems	Cécile Mainardi
Language	French, Spanish & English
Publishers	Uroboros-Basilisco, RAI, &  Edizione Albatros
ISBN english version	88-89512 01-6
ISBN Italian version	88-89512-00-8
First edition	2004

 

 

    

 

Technical specifications

Cover

Hard bound

Size	13 x 9 in. (extended 26 x 9 in.)
Extent	164 pages
Copies	1500 (500 in english and 1000 in italian)

Format

Landscape

Materials  

Ends	200 g. wood free paper
Interior	200 g.  semi matte couché paper & 180 g. wood free paper

Printing

Cover	4c x 0
Ends	1c x 0
Inside	4c x 4c & 1c x 1 c

Binding

Smyth & sawn