In quarantine and had time to reformat this project into a zine. Thinking about all my teacher friends and our collective need for online schooling this fall. No idea if Susan Sontag’s On Photography is still taught at university, but may be of some utility. Free for anyone.
On Photography does not contain an index. Because of this, I wanted to materialize the index that it certainly did contain.*
Throughout the process of making the work, I was interested in seeing, reading, and feeling my subjectivity with and against the production of an index’s objective-looking structure, and then consider the ways in which it’s final presentation supports, makes legible, and transmits ideas of art canonicity and processes of inclusion and exclusion.
Also, I hope the work is kind of humorous, and hopefully takes advantage of the “see also” self-referencing format of an index to produce an incomplete but self-contained and non-linear reading experience, full of the usual suspects and atrocities contained within the photography and modernity Sontag surveys.
Please visit the Index project page and scroll to the bottom of that page if you’d like a copy for yourself!
*Or, since I’m a photographer, I’ll say develop and reveal the latent image hidden on the surface of the print. :)
