Joana hadjithomas latent image in photography

          The “Latent Images / Diary of a photographer” book brings together 38 contact print photographs selected from the hundreds of films used and never developed....

          Publication

          LATENT IMAGES, Diary of a photographer, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2010 Artists book, Rosascape Third section of the Wonder Beirut project, 2009.

          Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige explore the archive and the document as tools for representing trauma, specifically their personal experience of the.

        1. Latent Images / Diary of a photographer consists of daily readings by several performers of the artist book that Hadjithomas and Joreige have published.
        2. The “Latent Images / Diary of a photographer” book brings together 38 contact print photographs selected from the hundreds of films used and never developed.
        3. The artists describe how the version of Latent Images developed from their three-part project, Wonder Beirut, and emerged from their.
        4. “Latent images” is a piece by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige based on the fictitious photographer Abdallah Farah.

          5. The “Latent Images / Diary of a photographer” book brings together 38 contact print photographs selected from the hundreds of films used and never developed, taken by photographer Abdallah Farah between 1997 and 2006.

          This book of 1312 pages, published in a limited edition – two editions of 75 numbered and signed copies, one in French and the other in English – offers an immersion to the very heart of these latent images. The description of the images replaces the photographs themselves; short fragments of text describe the invisible images while creating a new imagined space.

          The original photographs of two letters, also numbered and signed, open the book; one is written by Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas, the other by Abdallah Farah. This exchange of correspondence between the artists and photogra