Digital and Horses / Cheval Digital
Olivier Cablat, Sebastian Hau and Eleonora Matteazzi
Galerie 2600
English, French
Text by Luce Lebart.
Softcover with dust jacket.
100 pages
185 x 130 mm
2016
ISBN 9782919191079
‘The following images are a selection of photographs that have been collected in a Facebook group that was active between the first of April and the first of June 2016. Around 450 participants regularly posted images, gifs, videos and commented about two subjects: the horse and the digital.
Over three years we have been conducting this participative research on six subjects, three animals from Camargue, the bull, the flamingo and the horse, and three rather technical subjects from photography, the pole, shadows, and the digital. In each of the open calls we have mixed two of the above subjects – or motives if you like – initiating crossover posting and quantitative comparisons. To close the cycle we are publishing this little book and a website to which links are provided throughout the book. We firmly believe that this refection on multitude permits an accessible entry point into a discussion of the photographic image in an era that we are not afraid to call post-digital.’
– From the Introduction by Olivier Cablat and Sebastian Hau.
About the Artists
Olivier Cablat (b. 1978) is a French documentary photographer. Born in Marignane in the southeast of France, Cablat graduated from Paul Valéry University in Montpellier in 1999, and later studied at the Graduate School of Fine Arts in Marseille and the National School of Photography in Arles.
oliviercablat.com
(source: http://www.artnet.com/artists/olivier-cablat/)
Sebastian Hau (b. 1976, Krefeld) is a bookdealer and a photobook expert. He worked from 1999 to 2010 worked at the Schaden bookstore, specialised in photobooks. Since 2010, he directs the BAL bookstore in Paris, LE BAL Books. He is also curator in Warsaw, Leipzig, Arles. He writes regularly for publications like FOAM magazine, IMA magazine, Photo-eye and others. He publishes books in collaboration with Yellow Magic Books. He founded the bookfairs Cosmos and Polycopies and is based in Paris.
(source: https://www.lensculture.com/sebastian-hau)
Eleonora Matteazzi is a co-founder of Rorhof Publishing.
(source not available online)
About the Publisher
Based in Arles, south of France, Galerie 2600 was a progressive space dedicated to Art, photography, graphism, video, installation and music creation. 2600 support an art dealing with urban, experiment, post-futurism and contemporary archeology.
(source: https://www.facebook.com/Galerie-2600-171079062909240/)
