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Jeffrey Eugenides
(aka Jeffrey Kent Eugenides) (Writer)
[1960 - ] |
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Profile created February 6, 2007 |
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Thomas Demand (2001) by Jeffrey
Eugenides, Roxana Marcoci, and Thomas Demand
German artist Thomas Demand occupies a singular position in the world of
photography. Initially he took up photography to record his ephemeral
paper constructions, but in 1993 he turned the tables by making
constructions in order to photograph them. Demand begins by translating a
preexisting image, usually culled from the media, into a life-size model
he makes out of colored paper and cardboard. He recreates a room, a
parking lot, a staircase, a landscape--then he photographs the model and
destroys it. Demand's photographs appear at once compellingly real and
strangely artificial. Since their subjects--handcrafted facsimiles of both
architectural spaces and natural environments--are themselves built in the
image of other images, the photographs are three times removed from the
scenes they seek to depict. Combining craftsmanship and conceptualism in
equal parts, Demand pushes the medium of photography toward uncharted
frontiers. Given the cinematic quality of many of his photographs, it is
not surprising that he has set some of them in motion, producing five 35mm
films. This comprehensive publication presents all of Demand's major works
from 1993 to the present. It includes previously unpublished archival
documentation, and offers compelling insight into his working process and
the stories behind his pictures. Essay by Roxana Marcoci and Short story
by Jeffrey Eugenides.
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