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The Voyage of Discovery

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By (author): Carly Steinbrunn

A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see. I am subject to a double infirmity: I am hurt by everything I see, and I constantly reproach myself for not looking as much as I should. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques Carly Steinbrunns The Voyage of Discovery poses as the scientific report of a mission to discover and describe unknown worlds. The photographs present an inventory of findings, with an encyclopaedic curiosity reminiscent of the expeditionary narratives of James Cook and the travelogues of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Touching upon the realms of geography, botanics, anthropology and zoology, Steinbrunns body of work borrows from the varied approaches of the scientific register, and from the history of photography. Echoing Le Gray and Blossfeldt to evoke the aesthetic catalogue of photographys own evolution, Steinbrunn also enfolds found images to question the transparency of the medium, where a photograph is simultaneously an index of reality and a fabrication. Steinbrunns project is wilfully inconclusive, offering only signs to a pathway through a territory that exists only within the universe of her book. Ultimately, the work bears reference to that particular history which links photography to exploration the successive conquests of the sea, the air and outer space and Steinbrunn suggests that, in an age where every island has been charted, every frontier has been breached, the only journey left is inside the image itself. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 21 x 26mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Sep 2015
  • Publisher: MACK
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781910164334
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