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"We are asked to fall in love with an object through its image. Through its image we are infatuated.

Because of this image on the printed page, or the backlit screen, we devote our desire. Our desire culminated through accumulated digits and paper notes.

With no means of measurement, the object in the picture is dis-embodied, and it can become as large or small as the viewer imagines it to be in their mind.

But their mind is emptied, then filled with desire.

The object could be overwhelmingly fulfilling, or, possess all the drama of a kitchen sink. Instead we find another way to subside our desire.

In a photograph I can have this or that object, in fact, every object.

We know that satisfaction is always short-lived; desire is never fulfilled.

It is hard to admit that objects do not fulfil desire, they only temporarily subjugate it."

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Appropriated hybrid text: ‘Photography: The Key Concepts’, chapter 6: ‘The Rhetoric of Still Life’ (David Bate)

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Bate, D. (2009). ‘Photography: The Key Concepts’. 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

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The work ‘.. .. 86’ combines primary and secondary imagery in experimental practice. Through c-type printed computer screen-grabs, cardboard cut-outs and appropriated photographs, the work fantasises ownership, analysing the fetishisation of objects, and critiques consumer culture. 

 

‘.. .. 86’ borrows text from David Bate’s book ‘Photography, The Key Concepts’ (2009), and images from Paterson’s 1979 publications ‘The Book of the Darkroom’ and ‘The Book of Photography’, with re-workings from Paterson's website: patersonphotographic.com.

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