One of the members of our editorial team recently received a definitive rejection from an art school. His work was deemed insufficiently imbued with a certain type of «critical» discourse. His testimony serves as a warning.
Mind you, we're just talking about nitrogen and oxygen, water vapour, sun and clouds, not Heaven with a capital C that hypothetical gods would use as a megaphone. No, simply the sky in all its vastness, movement and light. Three snapshots taken on planet Earth, in Italy and Switzerland, rendered here without the slightest AI aimed at creating a reality other than our own.
Theodor Wildt shares textual and pictorial fragments of his work with Regard Libre readers. Episode 9
Theodor Wildt shares textual and pictorial fragments of his work with Regard Libre readers. Episode 9
This subject is an extract from Nicolas Brodard's photographic project «De la représentation des Alpes en Suisse». This forthcoming book explores Switzerland's visual identity based on the Alpine landscape.
All that remains of the Saint-Julien-des-Meulières quarry is a maze of pebbles strewn with massive, abandoned millstones. Photoreport
If the aesthetic aspect of images created by artificial intelligence has now reached the ultimate stage of photorealism, their semantic field remains human, all too human.
Theodor Wildt is a skilled excursionist, a studious prose writer and a brilliant camera operator, sharing textual and pictorial fragments of his work with Regard Libre readers.
A dreamy stroll through a place that was born in the dark years, then became a symbol of the seventh art, and is now undergoing a tremendous renaissance, allowing visitors to span the millennia as they explore the sets!