{"product_id":"windows-patrick-pound","title":"Windows \/ Patrick Pound","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-description-text\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eニュージーランド生まれ、オーストラリアを拠点に活動するパトリック・パウンド（Patrick Pound）の作品集。作者は30年間にわたり、他人が撮影した膨大な「ファウンド・フォト」を収集し、それらを独特なカテゴリーへと分類し続けてきました。本書は、彼の7万点を超えるコレクションの中から、「建物の外側から見た窓」というモチーフを抽出し、構成しています。幽霊のような人影や幸福そうな家族、演技をする俳優、悪ふざけをする日常の人々が写し出され、現実と想像の境界にある世界が現れます。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e廃棄されたアマチュアのスナップ写真や、現在は機能していない画像ライブラリー、新聞社、映画アーカイブのプリントなど、作者が収集する写真のほとんどは、eBayやその他のオンラインプラットフォームで販売されていたものです。彼はインターネットを「広大で、秩序を失ったアルバム」と呼び、何年もの間、その混沌とした中からつながりを見出すために、数え切れないほどの時間を費やしてきました。社会的な役割を終えたばかりのイメージたちは、単なるノスタルジーやセンチメンタリズムに留まるものではありません。本来の文脈から切り離され、存在の理由を失った写真は、私たちに再び思考を促しています。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatrick Pound collects photographs as if on a dare. For thirty years, the New Zealand-born, Australian artist has been collecting other people’s photographs and placing them in his own peculiar categories. To photograph the world is to collect it in the form of images. Pound’s work seems to propose: ‘If only we could find all the pieces, we might solve the puzzle.’ It is a folly, of course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Windows, Pound’s first photobook with Perimeter Editions, we find a cross-section of images lifted from a single category in Pound’s vast collection of 70,000 photographs. Each of the ‘found’ photographs in this new book features a window seen from the outside. We are allowed to look through them, from the privacy of our own homes. We see ghostly figures and happy families; we see actors acting, and everyday folks acting up; we see real and imagined worlds. Every scene is one of a kind. Page after page, we look through other people’s photographs and other people’s windows. Here, Pound reminds us that the photograph is a window posing as a mirror. Surprisingly, through its single constraint, Windows offers a little history of photography – its evolving material qualities and its practical and expressive uses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePound finds almost all of his photographs – discarded amateur snaps and photographic prints from now-defunct picture libraries, newspaper and cinema archives – for sale on eBay and other online platforms. He calls the internet a vast, unhinged album, and for years he has spent countless hours sorting through the morass, finding or inventing connections. The recently redundant images that feature in this book extend beyond the nostalgic or sentimental; they speak to us directly about our present. Photographs that have been taken from their context, and which have lost their initial reason for ‘living’, are remarkably pliable little signs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2023, these photographs – and this book – remind us of anything from the nuances of human interconnection to the separation of domestic dwellings, with the offering of sanctuary and entrapment nestled together. These images have lost their utility, only to find another more important one. Just when we thought they were past their use-by date, we are pressed to think again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWindows is a book of photographs worth looking through. It is a sampler of life as it is, was, and might be lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n-\u003cbr\u003ePages: 112\u003cbr\u003eSize: 200 x 280 mm\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eColor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Perimeter Editions, 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Perimeter Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53231083716905,"sku":null,"price":51.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0716\/7790\/3145\/files\/Windows_PatrickPound_c7a057fb-89ef-4523-bafd-0029fe5f1fb5.jpg?v=1780997159","url":"https:\/\/en.aohatabooks.com\/ja\/products\/windows-patrick-pound","provider":"本屋青旗 Ao-Hata Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}