{"product_id":"9789493146792","title":"Replica by Rita Lino","description":"`Replica' suggest a new reading of the body and the model as a pure image, a pure tool, without referring to any representative identity, hereby ignoring today's contemporary society of what the self should be. Lino refers strongly to American mid-century photographer William Mortensen, who states that a body is simply considered to be \"a machine that needs adjustments. \" According to Mortensen the body must be the basis, \"representation of personality and emotion [.] are irrelevant and misleading\".  There is a certain dehumanization in Mortensen's approach to the model, a return of the body to an object without meaning, in front of the camera.  Mortensen saw models as clay that form the image, a body was articulated only by the operator's intention.  He wanted to strip the figure from its emotion and personality, so that we, as an audience, could consider the body as a formed prop and stare at the image as the essence, and not the subject. In Lino's case she is the model, the operator \/ photographer, the subject and the image at the same time.  She is in complete control.  She found a way to remove herself from representation and reduced her own body to a pure object and image, almost like a machine.  `Replica' is a manifestation of the artist's understanding of her role in front of and behind the camera. `Replica' is a prescient of an approaching future in which identity will surrender to the carefree machine of image magnification.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311318806901,"sku":"9789493146792","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9789493146792.jpg?v=1762817292","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9789493146792","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}