FOUND LUCA
FA R I N E L L I
FOUND LUCA
FA R I N E L L I
©2012
I
began collecting and keeping scrap prints and test strips from the darkrooms in 2010 when attracted by a tiny black and white picture that had been scrapped by somebody and dumped in the trash, I decided to make it mine and bring it
home. The tiny rectangle of fiber-based paper and the building printed on it had something of the ancient miniatures: crispy and detailed, carefully framed, deep blacks well balanced by a wide range of grey and white tones. The photo itself had nothing special, it was random. What made it look special to me was the contrast between a certain attention to details, given by a nice exposure of the paper, a proper framing and a pleasant contrast, and the inaccuracy that at the same time was standing out through the carelessly-trimmed paper and the yellowish colour symptomatic of a hasty processing. The tiny print ended up sticked onto my closet door, and so did many other ‘rejected’ pieces that now, in this book, are shown as found artefacts.
orphans
of an artist, de-
prived of a title: indexical representation of unknown places and unspecified times, each photograph assumes a dimension that goes beyond the taste and the artistic conventions, it is a
memory
and moreover it is someone else’s.
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oman. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 20x31cm, RC gelatin silver print.
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orizon [?]. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 24x24cm, Inkjet print.
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omen with fur. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 24x20cm, RC gelatin silver print.
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hree young men, beginning of the XX century [?]. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 20x25cm, FB gelatin silver print.
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ld man with dreadlocks. Test strips. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . Various sizes, FB gelatin silver print.
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irl, portrait. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 44x60cm, Inkjet print.
G
irl. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 43x60cm, Inkjet print.
M
an with cables. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 44x60cm, Inkjet print.
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till life, clothes [?]. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 60x44cm, Inkjet print.
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ld man. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 28x40cm, Inkjet print.
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omeless man [?]. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 40x27cm, Inkjet print.
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an. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 40x26cm, Inkjet print.
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oman. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 38x30cm, Inkjet print.
C
hurch, unknown location. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 42x30cm, Inkjet print.
P
igeon. Artist: Daria Grushina. Year: Unknown . 37x25cm, Inkjet print.
D
ead fish and a crab. Artist: Daria Grushina [?]. Year: Unknown . 39x25cm, Inkjet print.
T
rees, forest, unknown location. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 24x29cm, Inkjet print.
F
orest, unknown location. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 30x24cm, Inkjet print.
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rom left to right, CW: [1]Two men on a bed, [2] two men with surf board, [3] two men, one girl. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown. Various sized, C-41 prints.
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oung man. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 27x25cm, RC gelatin silver print.
Y
oung man playing guitar. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 25x17cm, RC gelatin silver print.
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ld man with van, London [?]. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 25x19cm, RC gelatin silver print.
S
treet. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 20x26cm, RC gelatin silver print.
G
irl, test strip. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 15x30cm, FB gelatin silver print.
C
anned golden syrup. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 12x17cm, FB gelatin silver print.
B
roken mirrors. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 26x20cm, FB gelatin silver print.
B
ridge, rainy day, London. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 26x20cm, RC gelatin silver print.
S
ubway. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 26x20cm, RC gelatin silver print.
G
irl in a photographic studio. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 24x18cm, RC gelatin silver print.
T
rees, road, mountains. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 24x14cm, RC gelatin silver print.
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ricks. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 20x9cm, RC gelatin silver print.
B
uilding. Artist: Unknown. Year: Unknown . 18x14cm, FB gelatin silver print.