Splashes
By: Gabriel Jones
Publisher: RVB Books
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Paris]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9791090306769
Subjects: Artistic Photography
Work titles: Photographs
Description: "Since 2008, Gabriel Jones has played with the codes of voyeurism in his photographs -- never interacting directly with his subjects, who are always unaware they're being observed. The images in his series Splashes are characteristic of this approach: here, the focus is always on the "backdrop". Over the course of several evenings, the photographer invited friends to pretend to pose for him -- which allowed him to "steal" the situations taking place behind them. The photographs, taken with early cellphone cameras, have, for the most part, been reframed, so as to show only the situations and compositions that originally interested the artist. This tight cropping resulted in highly pixelated images, which the artist sometimes retouched to further accentuate the strangeness of the scenes he "collects.""--Publisher's website, viewed December 10, 2018.
Notes: Place of publication from publisher's website.

"Gabriel Jones took these photographs in Montreal, Brooklyn, Paris and Marseille, between 2004 and 2018. The images were taken with various digital cameras and aesthetically cropped."--Colophon.

Parallel text in English and French.