PAGE MAX by Julien-Paul Kraus
150 x 195mm, 50 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, Hand numbered, Ed. of 20, 2020
Even as stumbling on the subsequent from Monica Westin in SFAQ six years away “to examine how magical value-finding in contemporary economics is taken up in the medium of new formal photography, where the development of post-Photoshop can even be seen as a formal analogue to late capitalism’s alchemy”, a mole had to surface. An embryo by the very end of the last decade PAGE MAX propagated from distinct shapes and curves through the recent pandemic. Almost thereafter on vegetal paper a fondly benevolent dialogue erupted in the midst of her/his/their attributes. And by and by the ephemeral nature of the critter preened in the hustle, runs counter to the photo-essay’s commanding cliché. PAGE MAX is a jovial character who patch up ‘hi-low quality’ scans of photography negatives exposed in China, Malaysia, the Americas, the Middle-East, Ireland, Africa, anointed with a haze of documentation, commentary and reliquary. An orphaned mutant between the brochure and the fanzine laying down "words of wisdom" for the audience.
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