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Sebald’s photo archive
These pages, that represent the 385 images from W. G. Sebald’s four published prose fictions, jump-started our 5-year long study of the late author’s work. By attempting to bring the pictures back to their pre-publication state where they existed only as parts of Sebald’s Bildmaterial, … Continue readingSebald’s photo archive
Florentine Codex
What happens when we apply western constructs to non-western archives?When the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún set out to record the world of the Aztecs in 1540, he complained about “hidden meanings that are unrecognizable.” In Book X of his 12 volume Florentine Codex, written in native Nahua with sections translated to Spanish, he … Continue readingFlorentine Codex … Continue readingFlorentine Codex
Mnemosyne Atlas
Sebald, Dean and Warburg explore the power of the Archive.The Archive figured prominently in the ICI’s third title, Searching for Sebald: Photography After W. G. Sebald. In her essay that considered the work of Tacita Dean and Joseph Beuys through the prose fictions of W. G. Sebald, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes compares Dean’s Floh (2001) … Continue readingMnemosyne Atlas … Continue readingMnemosyne Atlas
Marcelle by Esteban Chavez S.
“Marcelle” by artist Esteban Chavez S. is part of Oeillet, a limited artist edition created for the ICI’s first book Bataille’s Eye. Esteban also created the covers and binding for the 1994 showing of the AIDS Chronicles at the New Museum of New York.