The above photographs are taken from the book 'Physical Frequencies' by Tim Richardson which was originally released in 2006. An edition of only 500 was made and I would love to get my hands on one.
Tim Richardson takes his subject - Taren Cunningham into a stunning juxtaposition of cold technology and vulnerability. The unsaturated photos are bleak and bland- and show levels of frustration, vulnerability and pain, through the body positions of the model and backed up by the brutally fractured images.
This fractured style of photography feels like a glitch, much like when the data in an image corrupts and transforms it into something new. The model in these photographs takes on another shape from this - some kind of moulded half human half digital creation, and it is this which influences the vulnerability and frustration in the subject. We are continually pushing into the future and becoming more and more reliant on it and less and less like ourselves. We represent ourselves in 2D digital forms and spend more and more time digitally interacting with facebook, twitter, computers and the internet - we are conduction part of our life through the digital media and moulding ourselves into something part organic and part mechanic.
Below is some examples of glitched imagery:
The above image is by Jezz Burrows, you can read him explain how he did this here. He also has a pretty damn good blog which is worth a follow.
The above two images are stolen from the glitch art group on flickr which describes a glitch as:
"Glitch is a short-lived fault or malfunction in a system. Whenever camera lenses erroneously save the data of what they see to it's recording device or whenever the binary code of an image file gets corrupted (intentionally or accidentally), the final result is a faulty image, which we call Glitch."
which I think is pretty nice.
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