Erik Kessels, Karel de Mulder, Thomas Sauvin, Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch

Incomplete Encyclopedia of Touch

Erik Kessels, Karel de Mulder, Thomas Sauvin

Publisher
RVB Books
Year
2024
ISBN
978-2-492175-47-3
Specifications
Softcover
22 x 30 cm
496 pages
1919 color and b/w photographs
English text

Distilled from over 15.000 family albums, INCOMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TOUCH archives the human desire to put a hand on things. Whether it’s cars, boats, animals, trees, fridges, bridges, bushes, fellow humans or even their graves–everything that can be touched will be touched.

Containing 1.919 photos, this collection is far from ever being finished but provokes questions about the underlying motivations behind this universal pictorial behavior. Do we seek connection? Do we claim ownership? Or do we just want to measure ourselves to the objects of our world?

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