A Photo Book as a Box: On Mladen Teofilović’s work The Core
A Photo Book as a Box: On Mladen Teofilović’s work The Core

Summary/Abstract: The history of the photo book is practically old as the history of photography. Aphoto book is more than just an object with leaves and pages, photographs, with or withouttext. Throughout The Core, the work of the young artist Mladen Teofilović, the text analysesthe photography book as the relationships between text, images, and spectator. According tothe artist’s idea, the photo book looks like a metal box that imitates a hospital file. Conceivingthe work in this way, the artist reveals and interprets the fragments from his life: his strugglewith a severe migraine, his attempt to find a solution, to accept his condition and live with it.Teofilović directs his photo book to the spectator, inviting him to take a part in disassembly,analysis and reading where every picture, text or sentence does not have to but can take on adifferent meaning.

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