Noise
In 2008, I unexpectedly had the opportunity to publish the photographic work that I had created since 2002. This became my first book NOISE (le caillou bleu, Brussels).
NOISE is not a series; it's the beginning of the long journey that I'm still on today, nearly two decades later. I just didn't realise that at the time.
This publication is called NOISE, after one of my featured photographs. One day, it was before I started giving titles to my photographs, someone viewing a particular image commented, "This photograph has noise.” Since then, I give a title to every single photograph I create. Thinking about it afterwards, I realised that the 'sound' emanating from my work is like that of a badly tuned radio; there is something subtly disturbing about it. Just when you think you might catch something recognisable, it shifts back into noise, making you even more curious to capture what lies behind it.
This publication is called NOISE, after one of my featured photographs. One day, it was before I started giving titles to my photographs, someone viewing a particular image commented, "This photograph has noise.” Since then, I give a title to every single photograph I create. Thinking about it afterwards, I realised that the 'sound' emanating from my work is like that of a badly tuned radio; there is something subtly disturbing about it. Just when you think you might catch something recognisable, it shifts back into noise, making you even more curious to capture what lies behind it.
Publisher's Description
'Perhaps unwittingly or even in spite of itself, Kumi Oguro’s photographic work has from the outset been drawn towards cinema. This influence has led the photographer to explore the theoretical, historic, visual and manifestly numerous relationships between her own photography and the language of cinema. This permeation could not be described as a debt in the strict sense, nor is it nurtured by explicit or obliging citations or references. Instead it feels its way, spontaneously seeking its own path and its own markers.
From her earliest exhibitions and publications and even in the recent developments of her highly personal series “NOISE”, compiled here in the coherent form of a book, these relationships (the staging of locations, placing bodies in real-life situations, the expressionist use of light, the theatrical play between actors, indications of an off-camera area, effects designed to create tension, veiled references to the logic of genres, etc.) have become undeniably more complex, but also increasingly diverse.'
Emmanuel d'Autreppe
Emmanuel d'Autreppe
ISBN: 9782930537009
Publisher: le caillou bleu
Paperback Language: French
Publisher: le caillou bleu
Paperback Language: French
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