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Originally posted on PhotoBook Journal:
Copyright 2014 Ken Schles Photographer: Ken Schles (born & resides in Brooklyn, NY) Publisher: Steidl (Germany) Excerpts: Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorges Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Jean Baudrillard Text: English Hardcover book with dust jacket, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany Photobook designer: Ken Schles and Jack Woody Notes: This is a new…
Essay for the Noorderlicht blog: “But I can’t help but connect Agee’s idea that sight “constantly formed by, and as constantly form(s)” the mind to Heidegger’s idea that language speaks us as we speak language, because now I must also conclude that images imagine us as we imagine images.” Read full post
(FOAM Blog repost #10) 10×10 American Photobooks by Ken Schles How to describe the current state of American photobooks? How to talk about its diversity, fecundity and complexity? The goal of 10×10 American Photobooks, a pop-up reading room with an extended publication surveying three hundred of the most significant photobooks from the last twenty-five years … Continue reading
(FOAM Blog repost #9) The Scale of Reality by Ken Schles I can’t help but think the way I see the world is the way the world is. But I know that the world as it appears to me (and fills my senses) is subjective: I perceive it in relation to the way I observe it. … Continue reading
(FOAM Blog repost #8) Images and Emergence by Ken Schles A broadly adopted technology will produce unanticipated effects and outcomes outside its primary function. A car may get us from one place to another, but this simple task of transportation brings with it many unintended consequences. Roads, necessitated by cars and trucks, transformed the very structure … Continue reading
(FOAM Blog reprint #4) In Splendid Isolation by Ken Schles I just got my copy of the new issue of FOAM magazine, “Ref.” “The summer issue of Foam Magazine reflects deeply on relationships between photography and reference. Ref. presents eight portfolios which [sic] refer each in their own way to other photos, a specific visual … Continue reading
(FOAM Blog repost #3) The Look of Love: On Sharing Intimacies and the Limits of Intention by Ken Schles About six weeks ago both my aged parents died. They had a dual funeral. Their coffins were lowered side by side, simultaneously into their grave. After hearing of this, more than one person has asked … Continue reading
FOAM Blog repost #2 A Call from the Wilderness, or What Gets Lost and What Gets Created by Ken Schles Far from it for me to second-guess policy concerning the Eurozone’s economic crisis or make statements on Dutch economic policy or policies that affect regional arts funding in provincial areas. I am not Dutch … Continue reading
2012 November 08 Essay Representation And Its Double. Ken Schles explains photography’s infinite capacity to distort our understanding of reality as well as add to it. For the FOAM Blog. (new link redirects as the FOAM link expired)
We live in a physical world and we live in an image world. Ken Schles looks at the relationship between our relative size, the tools we make and the ideas we have to explain how we see and experience the world. For the FOAM Blog. (new link redirects as the FOAM link expired)
seeing images, seeing things 