The Significant Savages (SIGNED) by Gregoire Pujade Lauraine
From publisher: In this age in which what we call ‘social networking’ has probably become the main vehicle for photography, The Significant Savages presents a foray into the way the ‘profile image’ is used to sum up one’s personality, particularily when it avoids showing one’s face or body.
The book exploits an arbitrary selection of Facebook profile images in which alternative artefacts are represented instead of the person: seascapes, forests; dogs and horses and cats; cars, bikes or fancy boats; cities, socks and shells, galaxies. What we desire or strive for, what we own, the places we have been or the ones we have been taught to love, our anthropomorphic pets —they all make up for our wish to conceal what we look like, while satisfying our need to exhibit our subjectivity.
However the uniqueness of these defining photographs dilutes into a mix of stock images and bad clichés reproduced endlessly, inspired by advertising, travel agencies and mass media. These pictures, supposed to be identifying, all end up being somewhat identical.
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