How do you spell "bullshit" in French?

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As a curator I can imagine a variety of expositions where I would show that photograph.
 

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Off couse it's bullshit, it's art and intellectual art at that, nevertheless I like it. And the BS makes some weird sense. The presenter on the other hand is rather annoying.
I also agree with Agx
 
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dunno if I'm being stupid there, I (think I) can get modern art in general, abstraction, etc... don't give me this feeling of vacuum (in fact I should say "no feeling at all", it's not even really annoying, just full of emptyness).

Or may be the subject is the viewer?

Except for the buzz it could create, I can't figure reasons why you'd want to show this in an exposition?
 

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Pixel peeping meets steam punk - I like it. Amazed Autochrome was still available in 1954, that overlaps Kodachrome. Minimalism photographique.
 

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And all that funded by French taxpayers of course... Bref, de la foutaise largement subventionnee!
 

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One of the interesting aspects of the work is mentioned right at the beginning the contradiction between the image being at first glance a monochrome image, but at second glance you start to see that the color is composed of many colors. The uniform color we see is actually a mental image and not a real color but the result of our mind.
In another Video Allouche explains it much better than me, unfortunately for the none french speaker this video doesn't have english subtitles https://vimeo.com/88679284
 

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Nothing new here as it was explored long ago by painting.
 

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Oh well, if it's been done before there's no point in exploring it again is there. Better stop taking photographs as well I suppose ...
 
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thanks for both links
i like this guy's work and approach.
and i can see a setting where huge
multi color images of static would look great.
 

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Dali said:
Nothing new here as it was explored long ago by painting.
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Allouche admits that the pointillists used the same principle for their paintings but he also sees autochrome (rightfully) as the link between pointillism (painting) and photography. There is a well known relation between post impressionism and the use of Autochrome as an artistic medium. German/Austrian photographer Heinrich Kühn comes to mind as do other pictoralists. Autochrome is a special/unique photographic process part "painting" (colored starch) part photography.

As for "And all that funded by French taxpayers of course" I'd like to know where you have gotten the idea that Allouche's project was funded by the french state, simple because one museum bought three of his prints doesn't mean the whole project was funded by the state (taxpayer).
 

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How do you spell "bullshit" in French?

I thought it was a parody. That guy's practically a caricature of himself, almost like he was created by Pixar.
 

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scheimfluger_77 said:
Well... That's 3:31 of my life I won't get back.
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Exactly. There was about 15 seconds of info. That it wasn't monochrome.

Evidently a color TV screen, or computer monitor is art as well.

Autochrome may have taken its cue from pointillists. But then it was also the only way to do it at the time. For color displays, it still is.


-More cameras than brains... Sadly it didn't take very many.
 

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I'm not going to buy it, but if I saw it in a gallery or museum, I'd go over and look at it and check it out.
 

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pdeeh said:
Oh well, if it's been done before there's no point in exploring it again is there. Better stop taking photographs as well I suppose ...
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Sure, but to treat it like:

1. Discover of the Salk vaccine
2. Man walks on the moon
3. This photograph.
 

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Gens,

It's not a photographic subject as an artistic object or a medium of contemplative piece of work, it is presentation of the component aspects of a given photographic process (autochrome) observed by a larger point of view of this process, with an historical approach, an ontological approach.

Maybe in the future when someone will present the process which Daguerre used to make photographic images will also ignite another scandal and bru-ha-ha,
 

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So as I understand it, this guy has just discovered what everyone else in photography would describe as an "Alternative Process" then purely describing it as a technical process from whenever and calling it art. I think I'll go find an old colour tv and submit it to a few galleries as a piece of current contemporay art because I've rediscovered it.
 

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I thought it was a parody. That guy's practically a caricature of himself, almost like he was created by Pixar.
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Me too.

I think they should have hired John Cleese to present this.
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Perfect.

Years ago when B&W TV was available, if you tuned to an unused station the white noise on the screen would actually appear as random color dots. The eye conveys color data to the brain as pulses of a specific frequency. Duplicate the frequency and the brain will see it as color whether there is color there or not. Since the color sensing portion of the eye is bypassed even the colorblind will see color. The screens would look like the painting in the video.
 
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