Clare Strand’s practice is concerned with the circulation and distribution of photography as an accessible medium, and is continued in this publication. Strand has created an analog Angle, where the reader is invited to make free use of her private photographs. The pictures are laid out as negatives on transparent paper, and in principle, can be taken out of the book and printed on photographic paper. The transition from one photographic form to another, with large and small transformations and related misunderstandings, are at the basis of much of Strand’s photographic work.
The contemporary is present as an underlying flow of images which we all encounter every single day, not least on social media. As individual images they may seem unimportant and exchangeable as they are thrown around like hailstones and confetti. Unanswered questions about ownership and rights follow the images on their way into collective consumption.
The apparently informal play of images, the clean-cut details and the strong object-character give an impression of a semiotic approach where the reading produces several referents - more ambiguous than one at first assumes. A different narrative is hidden beneath the veil on the dark negatives where the motives motifs function as a kind of evidence of obscure acts that may, or may not have been committed.
