The Man of the Crowd
On July 29th, 2008, in Rue des Canettes, Paris, an old man passed where I was sitting. He was in between alone and not alone; in between real and unreal. He stood still while the environment around him changed; he disappeared and reappeared.
The Man of the Crowd is an unbound artist book, presented in a box. It is a reflection on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Man of the Crowd and a Parisian street occurrence that I photographed during four minutes. The book consists of 76 single-sided pages that can be taken out and exhibited. The main part of the work is a series of 56 photographs, tracking a 21st century flâneur, followed by appendices with imagetexts based on linguistic analyses of Poe’s story.
Inkjet printed on archival paper in an edition of 14 numbered and signed copies. Rochester, NY 2008. more images
Here are some images from the book’s exhibition at Small World Books in Rochester, NY (Fall 2008). The book will be on view in an upcoming solo show at SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX (March/April 2010) and in the juried show “Made in NY 2010″ at The Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, NY (March/May 2010).
