EXAMPLE ONE:
Where photographer Irina Werning takes pictures from people's childhoods and uses the original photo (ie, the referent)to recreate the same image with the people only as their present day selves. She goes to great lengths to reproduce the tone, perspective, clothing, everything from the original to create this remix of the image as a really identical modern version. I think its a very different spin on what we see as remix, because really she is remixing the past, into the future.
In a very similar vein, I offer
EXAMPLE TWO:
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This series takes the same idea as Werning adopted above but is interesting in the sense that it is a picture of a photo in a different time. So here, we have the photographer taking the referent image (the original old image)and remixing it with the current location that it was taken in today.
I feel that Walter Benjamin would have a lot to say on this idea of reproduction and remix, in regards to mechanical reproduction of the photo. Not to mention what Baudrillard would say about the idea of the real.
If nothing else, this is a really cool photography endeavor, but I really do think its a bit more of a traditional way of remixing time, images, and ideas.
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ReplyDeleteGreat post and fascinating examples of visual "remix" (if, indeed, we want to define it as such) Cornelia. Both examples are really neat, but I find the second one particularly evocative. Although we often talk about remixing across time and space, this seems to get at notions of temporality in ways that make me, at least, rethink what I mean when I think about remix, time and space.
ReplyDeleteThese are definitely among the coolest photographs I have ever seen!
ReplyDeleteThey really stood out to me because they are not typical examples of remix, or of photographs for that matter.
It makes me wonder what exactly the photographer was attempting to say, and if they considered the idea of remixing time itself as a possible message.
Interestingly, no matter what seems to change in the world, or with people, an element of sameness always seems to remain.
Perhaps also, what we can learn from these photographs is that, again, from a historical perspective, taking pictures of these places, or of different people is a never ending process; and that the point of origin, and the original could be impossible to find.