Discipline Paper #06
Edie Duffy
Flash Conception, or, “the photos do not do it justice”
Edie Duffy’s paper examines her use of user-submitted eBay photographs as source material for her meticulously painted photorealistic oil paintings, by way of thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Jean-Luc Nancy and Georges Didi-Huberman. Duffy suggests that the transposition of these images from photograph to oil paint is ‘not as a means of washing away the digital nature of these pictures, but as a transformative gesture that engages a new way of seeing. Encountering the clarity of a digital photo in the fluid materiality of paint is a shock.’
12 pages, softcover, 148.5 × 210 mm, colour
Texts: Edie Duffy
Editors: Helen Hughes and David Homewood
Copyediting and proofreading: Helen Hughes and Amy Stuart
Design: Dennis Grauel
Year: 2024
ISSN: 1839-082X
Publishers: Discipline
ISBN | 1839-082X |
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