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Loving Your Pictures by Erik KesselsFrom April 9 until May 28, 2006 the exhibition Loving Your Pictures by Erik Kessels will be on view at the Centraal Museum Utrecht in The Netherlands.
Eight photo series will be presented consisting of photo material collected and edited by Erik Kessels.
These photographs, which the original makers did not intend as "works of art", will now take on new meanings as they are exhibited in a new context within the museum.
For Loving Your Pictures, Kessels has selected eight series and projects of found photographs from his projects and archive.
The origin of the photos is very diverse.
Some examples of objects in the exhibition will include a series of posed photographs that were made to catalogue German police uniforms from the 70's newly titled Models.
The intention of the photographs was to demonstrate to police officers all over Germany how their particular uniforms should be worn.
Also featured will be photographs from select weblogs.
These weblogs are digital albums where people collect images of a concurrent theme or subject such as the popular Japanese rabbit Oolong who was followed all over the world as the rabbit's life was documented and photographed online.
The series Wonder consists of submitted "discarded" photographs that were "rescued for viewing".
The photographs were acquired through
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