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 |
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