Spin takes its cue from Walter Benjamin’s “The Author as Producer,” in which he dismisses the distinction between “writing and image” and proposes that the photographer “give his picture the caption that wrenches it from modish commerce and gives it a revolutionary useful value.” In these altered news photographs, I have supplied the caption as a single word that cuts and disrupts the image and at the same time creates a photo/text hybrid that must be viewed and read simultaneously. The title, Spin, invokes the now customary euphemism for dissimulation but also the more distant Situationist notion of détournement.
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