Spring 2007
"I'm Too Sad To Tell You (after Bas Jan Ader)" was originally conceived as a project to create an archive of self-portraits taken while crying. The images were to be displayed online on a website and then later made into a book. An open call was posted on the photo sharing community Flickr.com asking people to submit their crying self-portraits over the period of one month.
The website went online containing over 100 self-portraits, a third of which were found on Flickr searching through "tags" people attached to their images. A majority of the people who independently submitted images had Flickr accounts as well. Thus, the project also deals with the phenomenon of Flickr and other similarly structured websites using photographs as a form of communication. The "I'm Too Sad" website then becomes an attempt to give the images back some of their integrity as images by placing them in a clean non-communication based gallery format. Likewise, the book is an attempt to create a solid, tangible outlet for the collection of images.
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114 pages, full-color, perfect bound, 8.5" x 8.5" (110 images and a short essay)
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