TY  - CHAP
A1  - Masnatta, Clara
T1  - Rinko Kawauchi : imperfect photographs
T2  - Errans : going astray, being adrift, coming to nothing / ed. by Christoph F.E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer ; Cultural Inquiry ; 24
N2  - The oeuvre of contemporary Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi is characterized by an approach that gives precedence to process over product and combines conceptual art with vernacular traditions, making her pictures happily imperfect. Starting with Kawauchi's transmedial concept of the image, often positioned between word and image and mainly materialized through photo books, I propose that Kawauchi's photographs are imperfect thanks to her experimentation with technical mistakes, the vernacular subject-matter of everyday snapshots, seriality, sequencing, and format variation, elliptical visibility, the aesthetics of color, and a non-linear temporality. Imperfection, furthermore, emphasizes the materiality of the medium, and removes photography from the referent-centered documentary domain by way of aesthetic, rather than semiotic, significance. Imperfection also activates different modes of reception, emphasizing emotional involvement and participant viewing.
KW  - Kawauchi, Rinko
KW  - Fotografie
KW  - Fotobuch
KW  - Concept-art
KW  - Materialität
KW  - Unvollkommenheit
KW  - Vernacular photography
KW  - Photobooks
KW  - Art and photography
KW  - Conceptual art
KW  - Materiality
KW  - Chance in art
KW  - Error
KW  - Photographic errors
KW  - Transmediality
KW  - Fehler
KW  - Imperfection
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70523
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-705232
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-24/masnatta_rinko-kawauchi.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-037-4
SN  - 978-3-96558-038-1
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 142
EP  - 158
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -