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Crimescapes is the newest book from the Vilnius based Lithuanian photographer Ugnius Gelguda.

I met Ugnius a couple of years ago when I was researching for a show I curated in Fotohof of contemporary Lithuanian photography. I was able to get Ugnius to Salzburg to make a body of work fitting into his ongoing series about the phenomenon of sensational newspaper headlines and the often obscure photographs which accompany them. The larger body of work in the book is based on the Lithuanian mass media, specifically daily newspapers which focus on disaster and crime. Because we are visual creatures, the atrocious and heart-renching events can’t go un illustrated so the images which we are often presented with headlines are simply symbolic metaphors alluding to the event. Ugnius’ work processes this gap between what the headline evokes, and what the illustration presents us. The book is broken into 2 sections, the Lithuanian work and the Salzburg series. Though the landscape changes a bit, it is interesting to see that the awkward relationship between text and image is universal.

It is published by Artbooks in Vilnius and cooincides with his show at the Vartai Gallery earlier this year in Vilnius.

Hardbound, 80 Pages. Lithuanian and English.

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Project “Crimescapes“ analyses working strategies of the Lithuanian mass media. It examines how in “crimes and disasters” pages in the local newspapers a message and its illustration aren’t related directly, visually but symbolically. The message is comprehended through specific symbols in the image and the headline that consolidates the symbolic meaning of the objects or a situation depicted in the image.

For the “Crimescapes“ project, these situations and objects, selected from the “crimes and disasters” pages, are re-created and documented by the artist, assuming a cinematic and
uncanny mood.

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Made 20 years after Uncommon Places, Shore’s newest imagery, upon first reading, seems to have done an about-face from the course set two decades ago. For one thing, they’re black-and-white. For another, these are close-ups of tree trunks, moss-covered rocks, and subtle, almost quaint photographs of leaves dusting the forest floor. But in a recent phone conversation—Shore was driving to Parent’s Day at his son’s Connecticut college—he convincingly elaborated the vital relationship between these two disparate bodies of work, cemented not by the fact of the 8x10 view camera that has remained his companion, but rather by ideas. The view camera monumentalizes things by close observation, by saturation of detail. Shore stated that this fact so often stymies students who search for a subject worthy of such attention. But one doesn’t have to find something monumental to photograph. Though it’s true that, for Shore, the 8x10 equates with a heightened sense of awareness in the world, that awareness can be applied to the everyday. This is the essential link between the earlier color work (see p. 3) and this rich new body of images. The limited edition of 50 has an original gelatin silver print tipped on to the cover and is signed and numbered by the artist.

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