The project of creating the book was launched by Typophoto based on the essay by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy of the same title (In: Painting, Photography, Film, 1925).
Photocopier, scanner, and digital image manipulation (bitmap) were used as tools that are capable of analogue abstraction. During this process, digital and analogue text transcripts were created. It was aimed to go from legible, but modified pictorial representations of the text to complete, illegible, pattern-like transcripts. The transcriptions of text into image got ready by restricted but individually used possibilities of the certain tools (photocopier, scanner, graphical program). This black and white book is a special experiment with the whole text image, the text fragments, the neologies, and their deformed visual abstractions. The book linearly guides the readers through the text of the original work which at the end of the book turns into images and presented in a completely abstract way referring to the content of the text. The entire work, scattered here and there, can be found in the book in a readable version as well.
In addition to the book with the above mentioned experiments, there is another book including the original photocopied pages created during the work process by using the
original xerographic method.
Credit
Consultant, Supervisor: Dóra Balla
Photos: Hajnalka Illés, Tamás Birinyi
Book binding: Self-bound by Hajnalka Illés
Printed by: FOM Digital
Made in: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Photos: Hajnalka Illés, Tamás Birinyi
Book binding: Self-bound by Hajnalka Illés
Printed by: FOM Digital
Made in: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
