Joana hadjithomas latent image radiology

This idea of the latent image is presented, in different form, in Akram Zaatari's 28 Nights and a Poem (2015).!

Publication

LATENT IMAGES, Diary of a photographer, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2010 Artists book, Rosascape Third section of the Wonder Beirut project, 2009.

Through photographs, installations, objects and videos, Hadjithomas and Joreige question the process of image making, the preservation of historical traces, and.

Ashkal Alwan and the Beirut Exhibition Center present How Soon is Now: A Tribute to Dreamers, the first solo exhibition of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige.

This idea of the latent image is presented, in different form, in Akram Zaatari's 28 Nights and a Poem (2015).

Recovered small black and white latent images 4.40: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Lasting Images, 2003, Video Installation –.

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Latent Images (Wonder Beirut Series), 1997-2007, Colour print with face mounting, 32 x 42 cm.

The “Latent Images / Diary of a photographer” book brings together 38 contact print photographs selected from the hundreds of films used and never developed, taken by photographer Abdallah Farah between 1997 and 2006.

This book of 1312 pages, published in a limited edition – two editions of 75 numbered and signed copies, one in French and the other in English – offers an immersion to the very heart of these latent images. The description of the images replaces the photographs themselves; short fragments of text describe the invisible images while creating a new imagined space.

The original photographs of two letters, also numbered and signed, open the book; one is written by Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas, the other by Abdallah Farah. This exchange of correspondence between the artists and photogra