Playing with ideas of nonlinguistic/nonrational indexing, and parody around objective organization and excesses of reduction. The average colour of each photograph was calculated and the archive was then indexed numerically according to hue. I am considering a circular arrangement and perhaps a total of 360 categories (one per degree/hue, including those not represented). Inspired by one of the images in the archive…
This may represent the first of a few inadequate descriptive systems I’d like to cross-reference.
This is great! And beautiful besides. Looks like a lot of work in Photoshop (though batch processing may have helped?). I like the Martha Rosler reference, too. :^)
wow, this is pretty cool. and I think quite a valid approach, given that one of the first things one might observe in examining the archive is the gray-white-brown-green cast of the photos, which would appear to be directly related to its subject/material contents: stone, concrete, bare walls, wood, earth, foliage. not many bright blues or reds, yellows or oranges. reminds me of the synthaesia phenomenon. Looks like a winner.