December 2014
Beginner
408 pages
19h 12m
English

Penelope Umbrico informs us that her project Mountains, Moving, “considers an analog history of photography within the digital torrent that is its current technological manifestation. I steady my focus on the mountain: oldest subject, stable object, singular, immovable landmark, site of orientation, place of spiritual contemplation. I employ smartphone camera apps (526 camera apps with their more than 6000 filters) to make new photographs of the images of mountains that appear in canonical master photographs. I find them everywhere: in books, magazines, advertisements, and online. Pointing my iPhone down at these mountains, the hallucinogenic ...
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