The Looking Game
by M.F.G. Paltrinieri & Mirko Smerdel
Photographs: M.F.G. Paltrinieri & Mirko Smerdel
Text: John Berger
Publisher: Akina Books
110 pages
Pictures: colour illustration throughout
Year: 2013
Comments: 13 x 18 cm; PUR binding; First print-run of 200
A serial killer and amateur photographer currently imprisoned in the Death Row: Rodney Alcala. An alias he adopted while on the run from the police: John Berger, as the famous British art critic.
Starting from this coincidence, The Looking Game explores the once-secret archive of pictures taken by Alcala and sets up a series of connections with Berger’s words, which are used in the book as a framework to read the pictures from a different perspective. The book provides an unusual take on the photographic medium, creating a work that calls into question the act of taking pictures as well as the reproduced image starting from the question: “What makes these ordinary pictures so unsettling?”
The serial killer Rodney Alcala was active between the late 60s and the 70s. His pictures were found by police only in 2010 in a storage locker in Seattle. With the exclusion of the most explicit ones, they were made available online in hopes that the public could help identify the persons pictured. On January 2013 Rodney Alcala received an additional 25-years to life sentence.
The Looking Game is the first installment of “The Subnarratives“, an ongoing project by Mirko Smerdel and M.F.G. Paltrinieri. Taking the shape of a series of case studies, the aim of the collaboration is to investigate the characteristics and nature of photographs as documents and the relationship with the story they tell.
more books tagged »archive« | >> see all
-
The Canadians
by Roger Hargreaves, Jill Offenbeck and Stefanie Petrilliv
sold out -
Algeria (last copy)
by Dirk Alvermann
sold out -
Until Death Do Us Part (first edition)
by Thomas Sauvin
sold out -
The Hidden Mother
by Linda Fregni Nagler
sold out -
Shvilishvili (signed + print)
by Jana Romanova
Euro 800 -
File Room
by Dayanita Singh
sold out
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
One Picture Book 87 : Ten Years Too Late (signed + print)
by Aaron Ruell
Euro 69 -
Diesels and Dinosaurs (signed)
by Steve Fitch
sold out -
After Her
by Todd Hido, Amanda Schiff
sold out -
There Was a Forest: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today (signed)
by Loli Kantor
Euro 34 -
Native Ground - one (signed)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 65 -
DEADLINE (newspaper - signed)
by Will Steacy
Euro 27
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
;jpg?c=4ba66f72c3d0b62c9a25fa6d29f38b65)
The Looking Game
by M.F.G. Paltrinieri & Mirko Smerdel
Photographs: M.F.G. Paltrinieri & Mirko Smerdel
Text: John Berger
Publisher: Akina Books
110 pages
Pictures: colour illustration throughout
Year: 2013
Comments: 13 x 18 cm; PUR binding; First print-run of 200
A serial killer and amateur photographer currently imprisoned in the Death Row: Rodney Alcala. An alias he adopted while on the run from the police: John Berger, as the famous British art critic.
Starting from this coincidence, The Looking Game explores the once-secret archive of pictures taken by Alcala and sets up a series of connections with Berger’s words, which are used in the book as a framework to read the pictures from a different perspective. The book provides an unusual take on the photographic medium, creating a work that calls into question the act of taking pictures as well as the reproduced image starting from the question: “What makes these ordinary pictures so unsettling?”
The serial killer Rodney Alcala was active between the late 60s and the 70s. His pictures were found by police only in 2010 in a storage locker in Seattle. With the exclusion of the most explicit ones, they were made available online in hopes that the public could help identify the persons pictured. On January 2013 Rodney Alcala received an additional 25-years to life sentence.
The Looking Game is the first installment of “The Subnarratives“, an ongoing project by Mirko Smerdel and M.F.G. Paltrinieri. Taking the shape of a series of case studies, the aim of the collaboration is to investigate the characteristics and nature of photographs as documents and the relationship with the story they tell.
more books tagged »archive« | >> see all
-
The Canadians
by Roger Hargreaves, Jill Offenbeck and Stefanie Petrilliv
sold out -
Algeria (last copy)
by Dirk Alvermann
sold out -
Until Death Do Us Part (first edition)
by Thomas Sauvin
sold out -
The Hidden Mother
by Linda Fregni Nagler
sold out -
Shvilishvili (signed + print)
by Jana Romanova
Euro 800 -
File Room
by Dayanita Singh
sold out
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
One Picture Book 87 : Ten Years Too Late (signed + print)
by Aaron Ruell
Euro 69 -
Diesels and Dinosaurs (signed)
by Steve Fitch
sold out -
After Her
by Todd Hido, Amanda Schiff
sold out -
There Was a Forest: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today (signed)
by Loli Kantor
Euro 34 -
Native Ground - one (signed)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 65 -
DEADLINE (newspaper - signed)
by Will Steacy
Euro 27
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
;jpg?c=f25bf30cc7196c3f233f2d21c6554ed4)
The Looking Game
by M.F.G. Paltrinieri & Mirko Smerdel
Photographs: M.F.G. Paltrinieri & Mirko Smerdel
Text: John Berger
Publisher: Akina Books
110 pages
Pictures: colour illustration throughout
Year: 2013
Comments: 13 x 18 cm; PUR binding; First print-run of 200
A serial killer and amateur photographer currently imprisoned in the Death Row: Rodney Alcala. An alias he adopted while on the run from the police: John Berger, as the famous British art critic.
Starting from this coincidence, The Looking Game explores the once-secret archive of pictures taken by Alcala and sets up a series of connections with Berger’s words, which are used in the book as a framework to read the pictures from a different perspective. The book provides an unusual take on the photographic medium, creating a work that calls into question the act of taking pictures as well as the reproduced image starting from the question: “What makes these ordinary pictures so unsettling?”
The serial killer Rodney Alcala was active between the late 60s and the 70s. His pictures were found by police only in 2010 in a storage locker in Seattle. With the exclusion of the most explicit ones, they were made available online in hopes that the public could help identify the persons pictured. On January 2013 Rodney Alcala received an additional 25-years to life sentence.
The Looking Game is the first installment of “The Subnarratives“, an ongoing project by Mirko Smerdel and M.F.G. Paltrinieri. Taking the shape of a series of case studies, the aim of the collaboration is to investigate the characteristics and nature of photographs as documents and the relationship with the story they tell.
more books tagged »archive« | >> see all
-
The Canadians
by Roger Hargreaves, Jill Offenbeck and Stefanie Petrilliv
sold out -
Algeria (last copy)
by Dirk Alvermann
sold out -
Until Death Do Us Part (first edition)
by Thomas Sauvin
sold out -
The Hidden Mother
by Linda Fregni Nagler
sold out -
Shvilishvili (signed + print)
by Jana Romanova
Euro 800 -
File Room
by Dayanita Singh
sold out
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
One Picture Book 87 : Ten Years Too Late (signed + print)
by Aaron Ruell
Euro 69 -
Diesels and Dinosaurs (signed)
by Steve Fitch
sold out -
After Her
by Todd Hido, Amanda Schiff
sold out -
There Was a Forest: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today (signed)
by Loli Kantor
Euro 34 -
Native Ground - one (signed)
by Rob McDonald
Euro 65 -
DEADLINE (newspaper - signed)
by Will Steacy
Euro 27
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
