Germany 1995–1998

Here the earliest known photograph is the subject of a series in which analog photography is translated into alphanumeric signs by means of the digital code. “View from his study,” taken by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826, required an exposure time of presumably eight hours and could thus never correspond to the human gaze. This photograph was digitized, the information contained in the seven million bytes translated into alphanumeric signs and distributed over eight squares. The panels, unreadable for the human eye, represent the complete binary description of the oldest surviving photograph. The time of representation is thus transformed into the representation of information. (Hubertus von Amelunxen)

Andreas Müller-Pohle, born 1951 in Brunswick, Germany, lives and works in Berlin.

Reference

Andreas Müller-Pohle. Interfaces. Foto+Video 1977–1999 (Göttingen: European Photography, 1999).

Link

http://muellerpohle.net/