From
artist book, I Saw You / above image available in a special
edition of 50, together with the book
I Saw You /
short film / edition of 100 / only five copies remaining
From
artist book, I Saw You / above image available in a special
edition of 50, together with the book
I Saw You /
short film / edition of 100 / only five copies remaining
I Saw You
Bruce Connew
Photographs and text / Bruce Connew
Design and typography / Catherine Griffiths
Published by / Vapour Momenta Books, July 2007 / ISBN 978 0 473 12457
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I Saw You is an artist book by photographer and artist Bruce Connew. Signed, numbered, limited edition of 600. Of the edition of 600, 50 copies of the artist book are available with a signed and numbered, special edition archival print. Only five copies remain of the accompanying eight-minute film, signed, numbered, limited edition of 100.
Hardcover / Tape-bound with
debossing / 120 pages / 52 colour images / 148 x 105mm / English / Printed
by Freestyle, NZ / Signed, numbered, limited edition of 600
Signed, numbered, special edition of
50, archival pigment print (image #16) on Hahnemuhle cotton rag 308gsm
paper / image size 91 x 91mm
8-minute short film by Catherine Griffiths
and Bruce Connew with soundtrack by Alfredo Ibarra
I Saw You, a 52-image surveillance series, was first exhibited at Mary Newton Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, in 2007. The exhibition was accompanied by the artist book and short film.
“I looked out the window down to the pocket-sized figures about the public car park, half a kilometre away as the crow flies, and said to myself, “Peter Bialobrzeski, damn it, you’re right, there’s work to be done here. No shilly-shallying. I’ll watch these people, and I’ll photograph them. They won’t know. How good is that, Peter Bialobrzeski, how simple is that? ” For twelve months, from the top floor of home, veiled behind an apron of black velvet, through double-glazing and a long lens, I photographed the comings and goings of a car park, an ample piece of reclaimed Wellington land that juts out into a bay, a family beach to one side. Surveillance is routine nowadays. It’s everywhere. We’ve come to expect it; we’ve even come to embrace it. It promises social order. It makes us feel safer. Its premise is creepy. I peered in on people’s lives, sneaked up on their susceptibilities as they busied themselves mostly in ordinary ways, minding their own business and perhaps a little of yours, when they could reasonably expect no one to be watching — private moments in a public space. Then I took away some of their identity and shuffled them together.”
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