Hollis Frampton
Circles of Confusion: Film, Photography, Video, Texts 1968-1980
Rochester, USA: Visual Studies Workshop, 1983
178 pp., 6 x 8.75"., softcover
Edition of 2000
A book of collected essays from Hollis Frampton which had previously appeared in October magazine and Artforum, with a foreword by Annette Michelson.
"It is only with the intervention of photography, along with its evolutionary progeny, film and video, that a reproducible and verifiable stream of words begins, just as the historical stream of words begin, for us, not with the articulating voice but with print, the sociable image of language. Language and image are the substance of which we are made; so it is much more than a matter of interest—it is our most inescapable and natural desire— that we undertake to invent, and to specify (using language, and even subverting it, if we can) the system of images... Eventually we may come to visualize an intellectual space in which the system of words and images will both, as Jonas Mekas once said of semiology, “seem like half of something,” a universe in which image and word, each resolving the contradictions inherent in the other, will constitute the system of consciousness."
—Hollis Frampton, preface
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