HOLDING THE CAMERA
(Extended Edition)
by Alberto Vieceli
No. 62
first edition, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-907384-17-6
softcover
448 pages
110 x 150mm
images: 391 black and white illustrations
Text: Nadine Olonetzky
language: English
Concept and design:
Alberto Vieceli
How one tilts the camera, holds it with both hands in front of the waist. How one looks through the viewfinder, gazes one-eyed into the world. How one hides it in stockings, behind the back, and how one lets it peep out from behind the corner of a building, as though it were a detective. Holding the Camera shows a pictorial genre from the now extinct era of analogue photography. Like the dinosaurs, supposedly the victims of a violent meteorite bombardement, also these images that were once distributed a million times over in instructions and advertisements, have been erased, deleted.