LONDON, Sept 8 — The invention of the camera phone means that these days we are all a little more snap happy than we used to be, but one creative has turned it into a true art form.
Since 2008, artist Thomas Demand has been working on “Dailies,” a series of photographs taken on his phone.
Focusing on the overlooked details of everyday life, the printed works include phone snapshots of minor, offhand scenes, such as a laundry line or an abandoned ice-cream cup. The series was designed to reflect the widespread urge to seize and share momentary scenes or events.
The images are achieved via a labour-intensive method of dye-transfer that involves fixing dyes with gelatine to ordinary paper.
Demand chose this process for its increase in saturated colours, spatial depth and intense darkness.
Following exhibitions in Australia, New York and London, the series is now set to come to Germany for the first time, with two of Demand's latest works, “Daily #22” and “Daily #23,” both created this year.
Demand has had his previous work exhibitied at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, the Serpentine Gallery, London, and MoMA, New York.
“Dailies 2008-2014” will run from September 8 to November 18 at Sprüth Magers Berlin. — AFP-Relaxnews
