Multi Multi

Title:
Multi Multi

Author:
Ed. Diane Smyth

Publisher:
Photoworks

This 31st annual publication is a deep dive into image replication. William Henry Fox Talbot pioneered photomechanical reproduction in the 1840s, and Walter Benjamin published his iconic essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction in 1935. However, since then the implications of photography’s reproducibility have been largely ignored – and even deliberately suppressed – in limited edition fine art prints. Until now. The invention of digital imaging, the internet and social media have brought the ability to reproduce and circulate images to the fore, and with them new questions around what it all means. Multi Multi gathers contemporary artists from around the world working with replication in 23 projects made with both cutting edge technology and the oldest analogue processes

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