Windscreen
Windscreen
TBW Books
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Casebound hardcover with tip-on
56 pages, 26 color plates
16 x 13 in. / 40.64 x 33 cm
2022
ISBN 978-1-942953-45-6
在 Phil Jung 的首部攝影專書《Windscreen》中，我們被引導透過美國老舊汽車的車窗窺視這些車輛過去的光景。這些車內景象多是在城市街道上拍攝的，處於公共與私密空間的交界處。儘管它們大多殘破且空無一物，每輛車卻透過無生命的細節——過去與現在車主留下的獨特印記——重新煥發生機，呈現出一系列沒有主角的肖像。
從平凡到奇異，各種物品勾勒出那些未曾被見證的人生軌跡——空的 Carlton 香菸盒、破碎的數位梵谷畫框、通靈板的指示器。污漬、霜凍與死去的昆蟲，彷彿抽象的色彩場域，有時阻擋我們窺探內部，而突然出現的一隻不屬於任何人的手，則讓人不禁質疑自己是否應該繼續凝視。
Jung 使用 Kodak 4x5 片狀膠片拍攝，並以精細的印刷技術呈現，使作品在色彩與構圖的運用上展現出攝影形式主義的成就。然而，最引人注目的，仍是他透過汽車殘敗景象，巧妙而詩意地勾勒出美國社會風景的能力。
In Phil Jung’s first monograph, Windscreen, we are positioned to peer through the windows of American cars that have seen better days. Captured on city streets, existing in a space somewhere between public and private, these car interiors are often found decrepit and empty, however each one comes alive through its inanimate details, the idiosyncratic marks of past and present owners, revealing a series of portraits without subjects.
Items both mundane and peculiar—empty packs of Carlton cigarettes, the shattered frame of a digital Van Gogh, a Ouija board planchette—trace the outlines of lives lived but not seen. Scum, frost, and dead insects, appearing like beautiful color field abstractions, at times prevent us from seeing inside, and then the sudden presence of a disembodied hand makes us wonder if we should be looking at all.
Shot on Kodak 4x5 sheet film and printed with stunning articulation, Jung’s work, in its powerful use of color and composition, stands as an achievement of photographic formalism. But most striking is Jung’s deft and poetic evocation of the American social landscape told through renderings of automotive decay.
