17/18/19 (Special edition) - Thomas Sauvin
The " 17 18 19 " series is based on a bag of negative film recovered from a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing in 2010. The bag contained an archive of over 15,000 scratched black and white negatives, photographed at one of the city's detention centers between 1991 and 1993. A veritable voyage of inquiry into the practice of these photographers by the police and their aesthetics, the book thus questions their practice and understanding of photography, composition and artistic direction. Who are these people? What are the stories behind each element? Why 17 18 19? These are the questions the reader must answer. As if the book were proof in itself. Putting the reader in the investigator's shoes.
During the artist's stay at Convento Residency (Portugal) - in September 2019 - the book was edited, designed and ready for printing. This was done in early October 2019, at MAS Istanbul. It is printed with silver metallic ink on black paper. And this was no random aesthetic decision. The black pages allow the photographs to be printed in negative form. And the silver metallic ink links "17 18 19" to its genesis: the Silvermine project. Silver and negatives, once disposed of in China, are now recycled in book form.
Published by Void Editions, 2019
Numbered (34/50) and signed cardboard box containing 3 prints and a single original 35mm negative from the Silvermine collection in Beijing (series 17/18/19).
15.5 cm x 20.5 cm, good condition
ISBN 9786188434141
The " 17 18 19 " series is based on a bag of negative film recovered from a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing in 2010. The bag contained an archive of over 15,000 scratched black and white negatives, photographed at one of the city's detention centers between 1991 and 1993. A veritable voyage of inquiry into the practice of these photographers by the police and their aesthetics, the book thus questions their practice and understanding of photography, composition and artistic direction. Who are these people? What are the stories behind each element? Why 17 18 19? These are the questions the reader must answer. As if the book were proof in itself. Putting the reader in the investigator's shoes.
During the artist's stay at Convento Residency (Portugal) - in September 2019 - the book was edited, designed and ready for printing. This was done in early October 2019, at MAS Istanbul. It is printed with silver metallic ink on black paper. And this was no random aesthetic decision. The black pages allow the photographs to be printed in negative form. And the silver metallic ink links "17 18 19" to its genesis: the Silvermine project. Silver and negatives, once disposed of in China, are now recycled in book form.
Published by Void Editions, 2019
Numbered (34/50) and signed cardboard box containing 3 prints and a single original 35mm negative from the Silvermine collection in Beijing (series 17/18/19).
15.5 cm x 20.5 cm, good condition
ISBN 9786188434141
The " 17 18 19 " series is based on a bag of negative film recovered from a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing in 2010. The bag contained an archive of over 15,000 scratched black and white negatives, photographed at one of the city's detention centers between 1991 and 1993. A veritable voyage of inquiry into the practice of these photographers by the police and their aesthetics, the book thus questions their practice and understanding of photography, composition and artistic direction. Who are these people? What are the stories behind each element? Why 17 18 19? These are the questions the reader must answer. As if the book were proof in itself. Putting the reader in the investigator's shoes.
During the artist's stay at Convento Residency (Portugal) - in September 2019 - the book was edited, designed and ready for printing. This was done in early October 2019, at MAS Istanbul. It is printed with silver metallic ink on black paper. And this was no random aesthetic decision. The black pages allow the photographs to be printed in negative form. And the silver metallic ink links "17 18 19" to its genesis: the Silvermine project. Silver and negatives, once disposed of in China, are now recycled in book form.
Published by Void Editions, 2019
Numbered (34/50) and signed cardboard box containing 3 prints and a single original 35mm negative from the Silvermine collection in Beijing (series 17/18/19).
15.5 cm x 20.5 cm, good condition
ISBN 9786188434141
