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Running From The Touch On My Back: Affect And Technology In A Studio Practice, Anthony Noel Hamilton
Running From The Touch On My Back: Affect And Technology In A Studio Practice, Anthony Noel Hamilton
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I rediscovered a family photo box two years ago. An image of my grandfather sat on the top of the piles in the Tupperware box. The photo created an immediate intensity and infected the entire family photobox. My grandfather committed suicide twenty years before I was born. From the point of this discovery I have needed to explore why vernacular photographs can create haunting resonances. There seem to be limits to the information we can glean from photographs like this one. Photographs like this one activate our desires to fill in unknown details. They also encourage personal hauntings and lingering …