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The compilation of *Monumental Moments* is not an attempt to reconstruct the life of this unknown Japanese family. Nor is it an attempt at anecdotal storytelling. What would be the point? And for whom? Each photo looks like an ordinary family snapshot. But the more the collection grows, the more questions it raises. It is precisely in this overwhelming quantity of anonymous portraits that it became clear how much remained invisible and elusive. What is going on here? Where does it come from? Why all these repetitions and duplicates? What are we actually looking for? It stimulates the imagination. Two themes in particular contribute to this: the endless series of “image portraits” and the apparent fate of these photographs, imbued with such personal attention, to end up on the sidewalk. Monumental Moments evokes associations and questions about the transience of self-images. Is it perhaps a memento mori?; First edition printed in a run of 1,000 copies, color photographs.
Signed
Eriksay, 2024
352 pages
17 × 24 cm
ISBN 9789493363069
The compilation of *Monumental Moments* is not an attempt to reconstruct the life of this unknown Japanese family. Nor is it an attempt at anecdotal storytelling. What would be the point? And for whom? Each photo looks like an ordinary family snapshot. But the more the collection grows, the more questions it raises. It is precisely in this overwhelming quantity of anonymous portraits that it became clear how much remained invisible and elusive. What is going on here? Where does it come from? Why all these repetitions and duplicates? What are we actually looking for? It stimulates the imagination. Two themes in particular contribute to this: the endless series of “image portraits” and the apparent fate of these photographs, imbued with such personal attention, to end up on the sidewalk. Monumental Moments evokes associations and questions about the transience of self-images. Is it perhaps a memento mori?; First edition printed in a run of 1,000 copies, color photographs.
Signed
Eriksay, 2024
352 pages
17 × 24 cm
ISBN 9789493363069
