• Digital Deli

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  • TitleDigital Deli
  • Author Marco Scozzaro  
  • Year 2021
  • Manufacturer Marco Scozzaro Studio, NYC
  • Classification Artist's book
  • Dimensions Height: 12 inc Width: 9.75 inc Depth: 1 inc
  • Edition 3/100
  • Medium photographic prints, 68 pages. (Interior pages: 4cp Indigo prints on 14 pt semigloss paper with gloss UV lamination. Cover: laser prints on 55 lb vellum, 2 mil Dura-Lar sheets. Binding: Fluorescent plastic coil)
Description
From the artist's website: Digital Deli is the final chapter of the namesake multidisciplinary project that uses photography, video, music, performance, and installation, to explore the current visual vernacular and the circulation of images. With its layered construction, the book expands the conventional structure of page spreads and sequencing as narrative strategies. Images of different sizes are juxtaposed and layered so that each photograph creates new associations with fragments of pictures from other pages. The result is a sort of multicolored and saturated texture, emerging as a new and complex image that transforms into something more than the sum of all the photographs in the book. Digital Deli appropriates the language of advertising, television, and social media to show playful but uncanny tableaux that question the rhetoric and the power structures behind that language. Ultimately, the book investigates the identity of photography as a medium and challenges its conventions and the related expectations of the viewer.