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Semites: The Album
Charif Benhelima
2011
HC (Collected in a cardboardbox) / 2 x 96 pages / 25,5 x 20,5 cm
Published by
MER. Paper Kunsthalle
Design
Studio Luc Derycke
Print
Lannoo, Tielt
ISBN
978 94 9069 330 5
Price
35.00 euros
For his series ‘Semites’ (2005), presented in a limited signed book of 500 copies, Charif Benhelima chose the polaroidcamera 600 as a working instrument, enabling him to question issues of identity and reality that result in what can be called a fake documentary work. ‘The Semites: The Album’ comprises 90 (2 x 45) polaroid pictures of already existing images: they are reproductions received via the polaroidcamera, in which the flash of the camera is clearly visible. The reflection of this light shines on top of the original image and becomes visible through over-exposure on the final result.
Leaf through the book here
