"Starting from anonymous vintage silver gelatin photographs, collected with the care of an ethnographer, Johanna Calle creates what she calls ́photographic drawings.́ Her own gestures are added to the fleeting gesture that produced the original image. Little by little, she effaces its original features, delicately bringing out the signs of a buried history: a landscape reveals the lines of a musical staff, a face gives way to a polyhedron, a series of aerial photographs traces the silhouette of the canopy of the primeval rainforest." --Toluca Editions website. Includes artist interview with Alexis Fabry in French (page 4), English (page 5), and Spanish (page 478). Includes artist's CV in French (page 522), English (page 474), and Spanish (page 518).
Summary:
Parting from old photographs, collected with the care given by an ethnographer, Johanna Calle makes what she calls "photographic drawings". To the tiny, fast gesture that triggered the shot, she adds her own: little by little she erases the elements present in the original image in order to gently raise the signs of an underground story: a landscape allows a musical score to arise, a face gives place to a polyhedron, a series of aerial photographs show how the silhouette of the trees of the primary forest ascends.
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