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Jason Salavon
100 Special Moments (Newlyweds), Photography C-print by Jason Salavon, 2004
2004

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100 Special Moments (Newlyweds), Photography C-print by Jason Salavon, 2004 Additional information: Medium: Photography - Digital C-print Dimensions:44 × 34 in (111.8 × 86.4 cm) Edition of 7 + 2AP signed and dated verso Gallery Letter of Authenticity From a broader series begun in 1997, each of these works utilizes 100 unique commemorative photographs culled from the internet. The final compositions are arrived at using both the mean and the median, splitting the difference between a specific norm and an ideal one. As Susan Sontag has observed, “Photography reinforces a nominalist view of social reality as consisting of small units of an apparently infinite number—as the number of photographs that could be taken of anything is unlimited. Through photographs, the world becomes a series of unrelated, free-standing particles; and history, past and present, a set of anecdotes, and fait divers. The camera makes reality atomic, manageable, and opaque. It is a view of the world which denies interconnectedness, continuity, but which confers on each moment the character of a mystery.” While Jason Salavon’s work clearly recognizes the decompositional tendency of photography cited by Sontag, it does not simply accede to it, instead finding a way to use it against itself. Dismembering the pictorial record of the American experience into the smallest possible unit, the pixel, Salavon’s work then remembers it in one composite output combining all the distinct source images—often commemorative photos culled from the Internet. This gesture in turn produces a second ambiguity; do the composite portraits—of newly married couples, of a child on Santa’s lap—in fact offer a sympathetic image of a shared experience that unites us despite our increasingly dislocated existences? Or are they an indictment of the homogenization of both experience and representation within contemporary society? This project presents two pairs of composite portraits based on 100 images of familiar social rituals. The two apparently similar composites are produced using related but distinct computing processes developed by Salavon and applied to 100 source images culled from the Internet. For each output pixel of the “mean” portraits (which Salavon describes as “airy”), the numerical values of the 100 source pixels in the corresponding coordinate are added together and then divided by 100 to create a new “average” pixel; this process is then repeated for each of the millions of pixels that make up a given photograph. The “median” portraits (which Salavon describes as “crunchy”) are created using a related but crucially different process. Rather than averaging the 100 pixels at any given position, Salavon selects the actual pixel whose numerical value is in the middle of the series of 100. This one real pixel is then used to represent the entire set. These twin procedures result in two visually similar but conceptually divergent images: one is a visualization of an “ideal norm” (mean) in that the image is a mathematical fabrication—none of those pixels ever existed. The other is a “specific norm” (median)—which is to say an aggregate of actual pixels selected from the source images. Like any photograph, Salavon’s images straddle the divide between the real and the idealized, just like the notion of ‘an average American life” hovers between lived reality and its idealized phantasm. About artist: Born in 1970 in Indianapolis, Salavon obtained his MFA from Art Institute Chicago (IL). He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Columbus, Washington D.C. Houston, Seattle, Cologne, Seoul, London, Geneva, Basel and Paris, among others, and been featured in exhibitions at venues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Smithsonian Institution (D.C.), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA). Salavon's work has been acquired for the public collections of the International Center of Photography (NY), Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Fine Arts (TX), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Columbus Museum of Art (OH), Cleveland Museum of Art (OH) and more. In 2013, he was named one of the "50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectible Artists" by Art + Auction Magazine. Salavon lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Creator:
Jason Salavon (1970, American)
Creation Year:
2004
Dimensions:
Height: 44 in (111.76 cm)Width: 34 in (86.36 cm)
More Editions & Sizes:
Edition of 7 + 2APPrice: $20,000
Medium:
Archival Pigment
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Orange, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2793216110552

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