Work

Title

Every Face in the Americans

Author

Dafydd Hughes

Date

2010

Description

Every Face in the Americans is a remake of The Americans by Robert Frank, in which only the faces algorithmically detected by the software iPhoto are preserved. The book is modeled as closely as possible after the 1977 edition of The Americans, from which the scans were made.

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Statement

As the amount of information we contend with multiplies daily, we rely increasingly on technology to help us keep up. Every face in The Americans is an examination of an encounter between one such technology, Apple Computer’s iPhoto, and a seminal work of documentary photography, Robert Frank’s The Americans. Such an encounter raises a wide range of questions regarding such topics as the implications of technology participating in the act of reading a text, the effect of digital processes on the idea of the document and the value of revisiting documentary works through the lens of the digital.

URL

www.everyfaceintheamericans.ca

Medium

Book

Pages

126

Size

18 × 18 cm

Technology

Print on Demand, iPhoto

Platform

Blurb

Source Materials

The Americans” by Robert Frank, Aperture, 1977.

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Related

Every face in The Americans – Faces from photographs by Robert Frank, selected by iPhoto by Dafydd Hughes, thesis presented to the Documentary Media Master at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, www.everyfaceintheamericans.ca, 2011.

Keywords

algorithm, authorship, bookness, photography, process, reading

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