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'They are gone as soon as they are made' by Karen Zalamea
Published by: Karen Zalamea
Contributions by: Katie Belcher, Sara Matthews
Design: Mark Timmings
Printed by: Hemlock Printers
October 2020
Format: Hardcover, colour
Images: 83 colour reproductions, LED-UV offset
ISBN: 978-1-7773112-0-9
Language: English
Edition of 500
Original Price: $60.00 CAD
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The artist book presents the full suite of 80 colour photographs from the series They are lost as soon as they are made, with essays by Katie Belcher and Sara Matthews.
To produce the images, Karen Zalamea built a large-format 4 x 5 analogue film camera for which she created biconvex lenses by freezing local water samples in specially fabricated moulds. Using these technological implements, Zalamea photographed the Icelandic landscape. The work explores the camera and its optics as sites for experimentation, the translational capacity of photography, the perimeters of vision, and the possibilities of the landscape to reveal and render its own image.
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