Alexander Honory

Each photographic image holds a moment, a fraction of the past that holds and proves the existence of its author, the object within and the owner. By finding and re-presenting images like these artists like Alexander Honory are saving that moment in time and the memory from eternal destruction and symbolically restoring the presence of the people/objects within them. Where as Schmid takes a more physical approach to recycling images in order to help the environment, Honory uses a more 'spiritual' way to present his art. His method on re-producing the images he finds and reconstructing the meanings is through presentation. He uses enlargement, framing ect to highlight the human within the image, giving the common 'family photograph' individuality. He likes to respect his subjects and authors by not only bringing back the images but focusing on the entirety of the moment in which it was taken. For example in his work "Thirteen newlywed couples for Berlin", he projected giant wedding images in the town centre of Berlin to take a private intimate photograph and re-present it in the most public way possible. In the mid 90's he then started to question the significance of photography within family memories. He would write a description of what was missing out of the photograph and present the words in the gallery instead of the images, this work was called "The Lost Pictures". This work was widely open to interpretation, where Honory was actually portraying his disbelief in the power of photography. Controversially although he is a photographer, he struggles to believe that photography is able to describe what images really represent. This work reflects the pieces I made in the first year, layering words over the images questioning which medium best represents what happened at the time.