Sparkling Past

Author(s)
Klaus-Peter Speidel
Abstract

For this publication, Benjamin Hugard and art critic Klaus Speidel appropriate preparatory images for studio photography that advertising photographer Jean-François De Witte only made to optimize his shots of mouth-watering beer, subtle dishwashers or carefully lit motors, pictures never published before, icons from the age of analogue, when a sparkle you wanted to see in a photo first had to be created in the world.

All these pictures lack something or have something more than the final shots chosen by the ad agencies at the time. But it's precisely in the diversity and quality of their blemishes that the authors see their critical and poetic potential.

Beyond its documentary aspect, Sparkling Past is a visual and verbal essay that raises deep questions about authorship and the artworld’s paradoxical relationship to advertising. With a text by the authors, a preface by Raphaël Cuir and a foreword by Catherine Bédard

Organisation(s)
Vienna Cognitive Science Hub
Publication date
09-2016
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
604012 Photography, 604004 Fine arts
Keywords
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/sparkling-past(4d6efb4a-1d9b-466e-93ca-976b2e5ddf26).html