A PAIR OF SCENIC VIEWS, 2012
Gracia Haby
Copenhagen Extension
2012
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil
Through the streets of Copenhagen swim trout-perch, bummalow, and killer whales. Eyes up! Look sharp!
This artists’ book was made especially for the exhibition By This Unwinking Night (2012) and is now in the collection of the State Library of NSW.
“In a world older and more complete than ours, [animals] move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Among such company
2012
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil
Across the pages of plastographical photographs by Max Skladanowsky (b.1863), the German inventor, filmmaker, and lanternist, new inhabitants can now be seen and 3D glasses no longer required. There, a Little eagle (Hieraaetus morphnoidbs)! Over there, an African pygmy goose (Nettapus auritus), and an Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)! Look up, there’s a Grey-backed finch-lark (Eremoptryx verticalis), a Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse (Pterocles lichtensteinii), and an Eclectus parrot (Eclectus roratus). Behind you, a Fiery-throated fruit-eater (Pipreola chlorolepidota), a Pin-tailed manakin (Ilicura militaris), and a Saffrom finch (Sicalis flaveola). And we’ve heard rumour that there is also a Black-and-rufous warbling finch (Poospiza nigrorufa), and a Dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) to be found in the wilderness.
Exhibited as part of By This Unwinking Night (2012), in a cabinet alongside Copenhagen Extension (2012). This artists’ book is in the collection of the State Library of NSW.
“Skladanowsky’s major medium from 1897 was the production of flip books which re-used his film footage, although many were also produced using still photographs. He began the Projection For All (Projektion fur Alle) company to distribute 3D anaglyphic lantern slides, published several albums of 3D photographs, returned to giving magic lantern shows, and sold amateur film cameras, projectors, and printing equipment.”
