Photogenetic Draft # 4 and Photogenetic Draft # 8
All works © Joachim Schmid

Via lensculture, a very interesting article on German artist Joachim Schmid, who uses other people’s discarded or lost photographs to make his own artworks. One amazing project from the early 90s, called “Photogenetic Drafts,” mixes and matches sliced negatives of professional studio portraits, to really creepy effect.

What Schmid discovered, happily, was that he could shuffle the left half of a negative with the right half of another negative to come up with bizarre composites that were uniformly lit and fit together in an uncanny way. It seems the photo studio always positioned its lights exactly the same way for years, and never moved the camera closer or further away from each model!

Check out the rest of Schmid’s oeuvre here. It’s a fascinating collection.

Photogenetic Draft # 24

Photogenetic Draft # 7

Photogenetic Draft # 32

Photogenetic Draft # 15

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21 Responses to “Identity Crisis”

/Nomelavolee ! @ 2008-09-10 03:56:56 PM says:

First :$.

Roberto @ 2008-09-10 04:54:59 PM says:

I DONT UNDERSTAND ENGLISH :s
AND I DONT UNDERSTAND THAT PICTURES HAHAH :p

fer @ 2008-09-10 06:17:46 PM says:

neee
wuey

eldiaquemeodies @ 2008-09-10 07:17:30 PM says:

j’ai adoré vos photos, elles sont magnifiques, très originales et très expressives.
à bientot.

Gise ♥ @ 2008-09-11 11:04:53 AM says:

Woow! Awesome :)

rosario @ 2008-09-11 11:29:11 AM says:

re flaasherooo

francisco @ 2008-09-11 02:43:24 PM says:

as is unloker?

florr @ 2008-09-13 03:22:33 PM says:

good!

/exeletr0_man @ 2008-09-13 09:04:02 PM says:

me encantoo0 la comparacion de l antes y desppues de las personas

saludos pazatee..

www.fotolog.com/praqetekiero @ 2008-09-15 06:02:20 PM says:

NuSe…XD
wiiii=)

passeen ke toii Re Triste de las pokas firmas ke tengoh…

besiiiiis..

praqetekiero

Luiza @ 2008-09-16 10:56:05 PM says:

Wow! Those pictures are awesome!!!

Nielly Stefanny @ 2008-09-17 09:36:44 AM says:

Muito legal isso

Parabéns!!!

DIEGO @ 2008-09-17 10:40:20 AM says:

PASATE POR MI FOTOLOG IGUAL TE INTERESA. BUSCO GENTE PA COLABORAR EN UNA WEB KE ESTOY CREANDO

Celi @ 2008-09-17 09:30:21 PM says:

Naa esta muy bueno esto, se va a la bosta.. no se si seran las mismas personas por que no entiendo ingles tanto pero igualmente no deja de ser lo que es

Celi @ 2008-09-17 09:31:02 PM says:

U que bobasa que soy S:

francisca @ 2008-09-17 09:52:38 PM says:

jajjajajajajajajajajajajajajaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaajajajajajajaa jajajajajajaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Lauriita! @ 2008-09-18 06:45:12 PM says:

Las fotos están buenisimas! Buen trbajo!

noopoodeesmiirar @ 2008-09-19 02:20:10 PM says:

buenoi lo qtengo q deisr es solo una cosa ff/s

akjskdjkasjkajkdjfkjf

pasen por mi flogg :P

ferranbdn @ 2008-09-21 02:26:02 PM says:

Quina passada de fotos!
M’encanten :)

antonella @ 2008-09-24 06:22:50 PM says:

que genial que es esto

sandra @ 2008-10-05 05:20:35 PM says:

ai deberian acerlo en españolllll
no entiendo nadaaaaaaa
=/