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F&D Cartier Françoise et Daniel Cartier Via unique one off creations of photo-based woks in constant transformation, we question the sense of the image, memory and lost, Time. We experimentally probe the essence of photography, its fundamentals, light, photosensitive materials, the turning point of analogue photography to digital >post-digital photography.
Minimalist experiments and performance, found objects, work without a camera, darkroom or chemicals > Wait and See, 1998 – Today : on-going research, in-situ installations of expired photosensitive materials exposed directly to the light of the exhibition spaces, luminograms left in perpetual transformation, left unfixed. The shared experience engages the audience to face reality instead of looking at a picture, invites them to be patient, and the history of photography is retraced, echoing subjectively the historical and artistic collateral events of the 19th and 20th centuries, by selecting for each iteration of our installations expired photographic materials (1870-1990), from various sources (900 different ones), depending on the singular situation of each exhibition space, in particular its history, topography, location, …

Erik Verhagen Opening the Box: Five Notes on Another Photography HATJE CANTZ VERLAG 2026 Our VENI ETIAM series (2009) is analysed and illustrated in this forthcoming publication

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Erik Verhagen

Opening the Box: Five Notes on Another Photography

Book overview

Moving beyond the binary between documentary and ontological approaches, Verhagen provides a scholarly perspective on photography beyond conventional boundaries

Photography historian and critic Erik Verhagen expands on the legacy of the exhibition La Boîte de Pandore by Jan Dibbets (born 1941), clarifying the artist's concept of "another photography" that highlights unconventional photographic practices.

Our VENI ETIAM series (2009) is analysed and illustrated in the forthcoming publication Opening the Box, which we very much look forward to reading.

VENI ETIAM, 2009

Archival inkjet prints of 40 large glass plate negatives signed Dott.
Nap. Candiani with applied seal of Venice, ca. 1880-90

B/W albumen glass plate negatives (8 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches) by an unknown Venetian artisan and photographer found during an artist's residency at the Swiss Institute of Rome in Venice, 2008

Collections: George Eastman Museum, Kunstsammlung /F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG Basel,

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