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Hadjidjanos notes that photography looked to art for its subject matter since its appearance in Paris in 1839, and has since had a lasting impact on “our collective art-historical imagination as the product of photography”. Photographs of Greek Ornaments from the late 20’s and the ‘New Objectivity’ movement, specifically those taken by Renger-Patzsch are of specific interest to Hadjidjanos as they depict a similar unsentimental approach to the objective documentation of art.
Select images have been used as material to create new three-dimensional depth map sculptures which draw on the formal …