Simone Kappeler, Darkened Days, 2013
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Simone Kappeler: Darkened Days: 25 CHF I SIGNED
Publisher: Douglas Hyde Gallery
Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 cm
Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 978-1-905397-39-6
Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 cm
Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 978-1-905397-39-6
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It is not easy to determine, so soon after these pictures were taken, just how incisive and perceptive they are, because they doubtless reflect Simone Kappeler's own values and senibility as much as the character of Dublin itself. But this is always the case, even in the most plausibly "objective" of photographs. The melancholic intensity of these images is both gripping and convincing. They feel true.
John Hutchinson
Simone Kappeler's monochome photographs may be her most characteristic and idiosyncratic. More often than not they are taken with a cheap Diana camera, whose low quality plastic lens can be used to create a soft, deamlike mood. This unprepossessing little camera, which Kappeler first came across ob a visit to America in the early 1980s, seems especially prone to making photographs that seem about to fade into darkness and oblivion.
Design and production by Peter Maybury.
©Photographs Simone Kappeler
