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White Planet Black Heart.
Photographs by Tøbjorn Rødland.
Steidl Mack, Gottingen, 2006.
112 pp.,
Illustrated throughout,
7½x12".
Publisher's Description
Torbjørn Rødland is to photography what the Pet
Shop Boys are to pop: a master of the delicately
orchestrated cliché overload, a surcharge of the
too obvious, too cute or too inane, played to the
point where, drained of all trace of common sense,
it suggests a new sense of silence, of mystery.
Rødland has a knack for producing images that
make you ask what are, in fact, appropriate motives
for art photography: Images of single audio or
video cassettes? Bleak black-and-white renditions
of countryside churches? George W. Bush’s favorite
ice cream? A black banana? Girls and pets, pets and
girls? He creates a complex of readings that inveigles
the viewer into spending time with each single
image, to reconsider its meaning and relevance.
White Planet, Black
Heart makes no excuses as it reinvents the
romantic impulses of popular culture. This is
Rødland’s first book.
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