Attitudes

Is a photograph able to represent something other than a superficial image of a more or less brief moment? What do authenticity and individuality mean? I strove to thwart or even sabotage the idea of the “decisive moment”, which people like to see as the “talent” of the photographer. And since, in our memory, the image of someone is actually comprised of many individual scans of the eyes perceived at various times, the Attitudes is logically also comprised of scans. For the series, I was looking for women who agreed to be photographed without clothes – so that no cultural connotations would be revealed – in a pose of their own choice, which they believed would represent their personality. The women were requested to hold their pose for half an hour. During that time, six scans were made in horizontal and vertical directions. Each scan contains 9600 lines; each line is the addition of the individually speci ed information of the red, green and blue components of the visible spectrum which are recorded at a slightly different time. Thus, each image is a construct of 172 800 juxtaposed and superimposed single exposures.