{"product_id":"a-close-up-of-a-larger-rock-i-think","title":"A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think","description":"\u003cp\u003eSebastian Stadler’s book work\u003cem\u003e A Close Up of a Large Rock, I Think\u003c\/em\u003e combines the artist’s photographic work \u003cem\u003eL’apparition \u003c\/em\u003e(2015–2019) with text generated by automated methods of indexing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach of the images, whether single or in a series, is a double exposure composition: a relatively generic scene or location is merged with a digital texture or surface. This combination sometimes punctures the image; on occasion it barely makes the viewer aware of the artifice of the reproduction. The photographs are combined with two forms of text: either a tentative description, like the book title, or what reads like an unmoored quotation. Both have been generated or sourced by an image-recognition algorithm that Stadler has employed in other works; this has been fed the images of L’apparation. The algorithm first presents its findings with the modest addendum ‘I think’. In a second step this has been cross-referenced with a huge text database, the Project Gutenberg digital library, in order to source unrelated quotations that accord with the image content identified. A screen-printed mylar cover around the publication further articulates the image-layering process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTexts by Marco Poloni and Nadia Veronese. Printed mylar jacket with flaps.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kodoji Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357729333588,"sku":"A8B-29868","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Num_C3_A9riser_2075.jpg?v=1790812750","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/a-close-up-of-a-larger-rock-i-think","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}