Emude, 2009

artists book, photography, text

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Project references interaction of image surface and memory. Photos in the book resemble 'found footage' from an old soviet photocamera miss read as 'Emude' and are dated to 1970th - early 1980th. But actual photos are made by author in 2009 during his trips over modern to him Russia (but camera is real - 'Emude'). Film was  developed in coffeenol to achieve this 'layer of time'. Texted is based on V. Erofeev 'Moscow - Petushki' novel and newspapers articles of that time and printed with an of page offset.