Title |
Every Face in the Americans |
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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. |
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Medium |
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Pages |
126 |
Size |
18 × 18 cm |
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Platform |
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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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ID |
269 |
