The Portrait Machine Project

Van de Roer, Carlo

ISBN 10: 8862082681 / ISBN 13: 9788862082686

Published by Damiani, Bologna, 2013

About this Item

Signed by Author. VAN DE ROER, CARLO. The Portrait Machine Project, Italy: Damiani, 2013.Quarto, first edition, unpaginated, gray cloth boards with white lettering stamped on spine and a multicolored glossy label mounted on front, 34 color plates, signed by the photographer on the half-title. Val Williams explains in the introduction that Van de Roer used an Aura camera, which captures biofeedback from the person being photographed, so that the print shows the person and the biofeedback he or she is giving off. The aura is like a colored fog obscuring the person. Van de Roer seems to be saying we are all obscured from one another. Subjects here are nude or clothed, upper body only, with color plates and diagrammatic information on facing or verso pages. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Photography; United States; Modern; New Age & Alternative. Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9788862082686. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51521.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Portrait Machine Project
• Publisher: Damiani, Bologna
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8862082681
• ISBN 13: 9788862082686
• Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: New Book
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

In The Portrait Machine Project, Brooklyn-based New Zealand photographer Carlo Van de Roer (born 1975) explores the idea that a camera can reveal otherwise hidden facets of a subject’s character, and their relationship with the photographer and viewer. Van de Roer uses a Polaroid aura camera, developed in the 1970s in an attempt to record what a psychic might see. His subjects--friends, family, artists Miranda July, Terence Koh and Aurel Schmidt, author James Frey--are connected by sensors to the camera, which translates biofeedback into information about their characters and how they are viewed. The camera depicts this information as color in the Polaroid and as a printed description and diagram. In this, his first book, Van de Roer prompts us to question what we expect from a portrait, particularly when it’s of someone we think we know.