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Richard
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Text Portraits
Posted on November 7th, 2009 No commentsRemember that newspaper advert last week? Don’t know who created that, but Ralph Ueltzhoeffer works in this arena – mixing portraits created by other photographers with biographical data on the subject drawn from the internet. Their life is writ large not just on their face but is their face… Their is a computer element to what he does too – a deliberate play upon the potential of the digital medium to go beyond the mere removal of the need to have a film processed.
Identity, anyone?
Ueltzhoeffer Ralph -Textportrait - Jenny Holzer
There is an English version of his website if you look hard.
Jenny Holzer, whose portrait this is, also works with text – projecting ‘truisms’ onto scenes and then photographing the result.
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