Out of Context into Chaos

Description

Out of Context into Chaos is is a series of three books of images and ideas that examine the nature and purpose of photography using reassembled photographs. The images are self-collages of hundreds of small, constituent photographs that challenge the viewers to consider recognition, deterioration and loss, and the separation from reality (the loss of context) than every photograph suffers. The three books are Memories and Photographs (15 images and 64 pages), Deterioration and Loss (12 images and 56 pages), and Photographs and Reality (20 images and 76 pages). Each book includes an essay that runs through it. The essays, respectively, address the process of using photographs to help us remember the past, a process of using reassembled photographs to assuage our concerns of a discontinuous future, and the failed process of using photographs to capture reality–the present.