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Johanna Warwick
Saturday, September 26 - 1:00PM to 1:50PM
University of Oklahoma - FJC 317
Monuments to Strangers is a body of work where I have photographed archival objects as an exploration of the intersection between historic processes and new technologies in the photographic medium. These photographs depict antique relief half-tone printing blocks originally made by a photomechanical process to reproduce photographs for publication between the 1880s and 1960s. Their invention was the first time in history images of reality could be produced on presses reaching the public, rather than an image interpreted and altered by hand. An outdated process, today these blocks have no use. They have become antiquated, much like the newspapers that they were once printed in. I am photographing them to present this historic process and lost imagery in a new way, using the technologies that made them obsolete. The photographs become monuments to people of the past and render them significant again.
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