What are you looking for?
By: Luke Le
Contributors: Rule, Dan, editor; Ellis, Justine, editor; Taylor, Sasha, 1995-, book designer
Series: Perimeter editions -- 064; Perimeter editions -- 064
Publisher: Published by Perimeter Editions
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Melbourne, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781922545015
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Photobooks; Specimens; Photographie artistique; Art photography
Description: Where does the meaning of a photograph lie? Where do the limits of its authorship, spectatorship and democracy cross paths? These are questions at the heart of untrained Sydney-based artist Luke Le's photographic practice. In his first major artist book - What are you looking for? - Le reroutes notions of diarism and the impromptu to broach new aesthetic and philosophical terrains. A kind of open letter to a former life in Melbourne, the book forms both an intensely personal gesture and a wider provocation toward the subjectivities and assumptions that underpin photography itself. These raw, intuitive images - created from scans of degraded Risograph prints - are at once rooted in and free of place. Their dynamic gaze veers toward specificity, but never quite lands. Amidst the noise of their gritty, fine grain, Le's images leave as many questions as answers. --Publisher infomation.
Notes: Editors: Justine Ellis and Dan Rule.

Design: Sasha Taylor for Perimeter Bureau.

First edition of 400.

Also issued in a special edition of 25 copies, signed and numbered by the artist and including a limited edition screenprint (42 x 52 cm).

Title and statement of responsibility from spine of dust jacket, colophon also on rear of dust jacket.

Luke Le (formerly Luke van Aurich) is a Sydney-based artist and designer, working with no formal training. Born in Perth in 1990, his career has spanned photography, publishing, furniture design and product design. He has exhibited his photography in various contexts in Australia and internationally. He is a cofounder of the sustainable design label and retailer Column A.

Perfect bind, softcover with poster dust jacket.