Beyond Visual Range
In traditional photography, there is a negative first, from which the positive is created by projection onto light-sensitive photographic paper. The negative, in which the gray values appear exactly reversed, normally remains hidden from the viewer. Not so in this book, in which both negative and positive are presented equally. Since the negative image has no counterpart in reality, one might assume that the reversal of gray values would immediately be recognized as "wrong." However, it does not seem that simple. In fact, a negative is not less correct than a positive or even wrong. It just depicts reality differently.
This book is not at all about depicting reality as objectively as possible. It is about celebrating the grace of everyday objects that are hardly noticed because of their casual existence. Although they seem so marginal, we (at least the photographer) associate various experiences, emotions and memories with these objects. They „speak“ to us simply by their visual presence and thus represent much more than they actually are.
Objects reflect context, they can be read and thus gradually take on the character of signs. This is the path this book tries to follow. Forms become more and more simple and abstract and step by step lose any relation to the object. Signs are based on conventions that, as soon as they are broken, irritate. Familiar letters can hardly be interpreted when mirror-inverted. And there are signs that are familiar to us, but still cannot be read.
This book is not at all about depicting reality as objectively as possible. It is about celebrating the grace of everyday objects that are hardly noticed because of their casual existence. Although they seem so marginal, we (at least the photographer) associate various experiences, emotions and memories with these objects. They „speak“ to us simply by their visual presence and thus represent much more than they actually are.
Objects reflect context, they can be read and thus gradually take on the character of signs. This is the path this book tries to follow. Forms become more and more simple and abstract and step by step lose any relation to the object. Signs are based on conventions that, as soon as they are broken, irritate. Familiar letters can hardly be interpreted when mirror-inverted. And there are signs that are familiar to us, but still cannot be read.
Title: Beyond Visual Range
Artist: Juergen Schmidt
ISBN: 978-3-9823277-0-9
Type: Hardcover
94 pages
21 × 21 cm; 8,3 × 8,3 inches approx.
Edition size: 200 numbered copies
Type of printing: offset duotone
Price: 38 EUR + shipping
Beyond Visual Range is available at:
Bookstores:
Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz, Stadtbahnbogen 593, 10623 Berlin
Artist: Juergen Schmidt
ISBN: 978-3-9823277-0-9
Type: Hardcover
94 pages
21 × 21 cm; 8,3 × 8,3 inches approx.
Edition size: 200 numbered copies
Type of printing: offset duotone
Price: 38 EUR + shipping
Beyond Visual Range is available at:
Bookstores:
Bücherbogen am Savignyplatz, Stadtbahnbogen 593, 10623 Berlin
