STEREOSCOPE MAGAZINE

2014: THE mini-ISSUE: NOISE.

THE NOISE mini-ISSUE

Noise is arbitrary and disruptive. In photography, it is defined as the random variation of image density, visible as grain in film, and as pixel variations in digital photography. It is unwanted signal; random fluctuations that obscure or simply do not contain meaningful information. Noise can be nauseous. A sense of dislocation; a clash of contrasting elements; an overload of one particular sense. Noise interrupts and announces itself. Noise can be an alarm - telling you something; but noise can also be meaningless and sounds without words. Noise can be audible and inaudible; as cacophonous and jarring, as it can be soundless; as much muting as muted. White noise is a mix between nothing and something: a television not quite turned off, the crackle of static in between radio stations. 

It relates to randomness, multiplicity and the mundane.

STEREOSCOPE MAGAZINE

2014: THE BIG ISSUE: VOLUMES.

THE VOLUMES ISSUE

Volumes has something to do with the physicality and tactility of photographs. Printed images, as in this magazine, operate as ‘trans-media’—where the item, person, or ‘thing’ re-presented in the photograph is corroborated by the volume of the printed page.

Here, the photograph operates on both sides of a given plane—reality—much like a molecular structure in which two atoms, on which a bond is based, lie on opposite sides of a symmetrical plane. What is meant here is that the index relives some of its three-dimensionality in the physical reproduction of the image.