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Paul Schiek - Dead Men Don't Look Like Me, TBW Books, 2012


Paul Schiek - Dead Men Don't Look Like Me

Paul Schiek - Dead Men Don't Look Like Me, josefchladek.com


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"Dead Men Don’t Look Like Me" presents 20 duotone plates of men re-photographed from 1950s-era mug shots found by the artist’s friend Mike Brodie in an abandoned Georgia prison. Brodie gifted the mug shots to Schiek, who then edited the original cache of hundreds down to a select few, cropped the images to remove all official documentary references while leaving stains, staple marks, tears and other signs of age, and enlarged the prints on highly reflective chromogenic paper to imbue them with personal and cultural meaning beyond their original purpose.

Softcover, printrun 800, signed.

You can still find copies at photobookcorner.

Artist: Paul Schiek

Pages: 56

Place: Oakland

Year: 2012

Publisher: TBW Books

Size: 18 × 22 cm (approx.)

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