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Chips, 2004

Gelatin silver print
65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP

Gelatin silver print
65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP
41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
Edition of 5 + 3 AP

Interested by the idea of a trivial subject, here Valérie Belin photographs an everyday consumer product, an object “without qualities.” Packets of potato crips are photographed in a neutral way, without intervention, in order to make the photograph “equivalent” to its subject. Here, the artist shows how a photograph can transform its subject by applying a minimal protocol involving enlargement and the removal of colour. In this approach, these photographs can be considered as the equivalent of the monochrome in painting. What is brought out here is the graphic aspect of these objects; they look a bit like posters. Seeing these posters, we might think of Pop Art, photorealism, or the New Objectivity, or certain tendencies of so-called “documentary” photography that took an interest in the “vernacular” aspect of things.

  • Chips #1

    Chips #1

    Gelatin silver print
    65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP
    41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP

  • Chips #2

    Chips #2

    Gelatin silver print
    65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP
    41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP

  • Chips #3

    Chips #3

    Gelatin silver print
    65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP
    41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP

  • Chips #4

    Chips #4

    Gelatin silver print
    65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP
    41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP

  • Chips #5

    Chips #5

    Gelatin silver print
    65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP
    41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP

  • Chips #6

    Chips #6

    Gelatin silver print
    65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP
    41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP

  • Chips #7

    Chips #7

    Gelatin silver print
    65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP
    41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP

  • Chips #8

    Chips #8

    Gelatin silver print
    65.4 x 49.2 inches (166 x 125 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP
    41.7 x 31.5 inches (106 x 80 cm)
    Edition of 5 + 3 AP

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