Released on the occasion of the presentation of the exhibition Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age at 319 Scholes, New York (October 18 – November 4, 2012), this book presents Ryan Trecartin’s series of prints “A Lossless Fall 2010” together with its background documentation, in order to allow the reader to better get into an iconic, seminal piece of contemporary art. In November 2010, Ryan Trecartin published in the fashion and design magazine “W” the portraits of four of his long time collaborators: Lizzie Fitch, Veronica Gelbaum, Telfar Clemens, and Ashland Mines. The group was titled “A Lossless Fall 2010”. Each portrait is the result of an extensive research into images, and post-production leaves no details of the original photo intact. The extensive research done by Trecartin and his collaborators was later published in the experimental online magazine “DIS” under the title “Ryan’s Web 1.0”.
