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NON FICTION by Christopher Anderson
NON FICTION by Christopher Anderson
NON FICTION by Christopher Anderson
NON FICTION by Christopher Anderson
NON FICTION by Christopher Anderson
NON FICTION by Christopher Anderson
NON FICTION by Christopher Anderson

NON FICTION by Christopher Anderson

de.MO., 2004, First edition, Unpaginated, 7 1/4" X 7 3/4", Softcover in clamshell box

Fine in very good clamshell box

In November 2002, war photographer Christopher Anderson had a chance encounter with a Holga, a plastic toy camera manufactured in China. Expecting it to be nothing more than a game, Anderson quickly found a kind of freedom with the plastic camera that differed greatly from his usual work as a war photographer.

“My work requires a certain intellectual engagement in trying to visually communicate information both literal and emotional. But I found something very different with this camera. Because it’s a toy, I couldn’t control it the way I normally would. I couldn’t take pictures that were the result of an engaged thought process, because it was physically impossible with this camera,” explains Anderson. Instead, he found himself reacting and taking pictures in a much more instinctive way. “The pictures that I was taking were free of meaning or message and were much more revealing about how I reacted to scenes that I encountered while going about my life,” he adds.

Anderson used the plastic camera for a period of eight months, and his photographs were guided solely by emotion and intuition.

 

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