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United States | 35*27 cm (W*H) | silver gelative-prints
 

 Nancy Burson
«First and Second Male Movie Composite»

First Male Movie Composite: Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable & Humphrey Bogart.
Second Male Movie Composite: Richard Gere, Christopher Reeve, Mel Gibson, Warren Beatty & Robert Redford.

First Male Movie Composite: Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable & Humphrey Bogart.
Second Male Movie Composite: Richard Gere, Christopher Reeve, Mel Gibson, Warren Beatty & Robert Redford.

«The pictures show what will result if you dissect already available information and assemble it anew, regardless of whether this information is calculated in pixels, genes or whatever. Nothing new will result from this except old information, albeit in chimerical form. The pictures would be truly creative only if some as yet unavailable information, a ‹noise,› for instance, had been introduced into the computation. The pictures say (as if in a negative) that calculation and computation will result in something truly new only if imagination (fantasy, inspiration, whatever) is added.»
(Source: Vilém Flusser, «Nancy Burson. Chimaera», in: Photography after Photography, Hubertus v. Amelunxen et. al. (eds.), Munich /Amsterdam, 1996, p.152.)