Picture Material (Rochester, NY)
Photograph
Picture Material (Rochester, NY)
2008-2013
Shredded chromogenic development prints
Unique work
Image: 100 x 70 cm (39 3/8 x 27 9/16 in.)
Frame: 105 x 74.7 x 4.5 cm (41 5/16 x 29 7/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Purchase with funds from the Charina Foundation, 2014
2014.0120.0001
Inscriptions [inscription not recorded at time of cataloging]
TextThis work consists of approximately one hundred shredded photographs, which the artist has carefully reconfigured into an almost-abstract assemblage. The source image is a portrait of Steven Sasson, the Kodak employee who invented the world’s first digital camera in 1975; its deconstruction into paper strips translates into visual form analog photography’s position at the crossroads of ideological and physical materialism. As part of Bizumic’s larger investigation into the state of contemporary photography, it points to linkages among industrial manufacture, modern social history, and artistic constraint.
