Pornographics
Copyright by Juliane Otterbach 2003
PORNOGRAPHICS is a series of flickbooks that depicts graphic scenes from sexual
or violent internet films in a new format. Films with often extreme visual content
were chosen and downloaded from websites accessible to everyone, and successive
stills of the main action were then traced on a white background. The result
is a series of stark, simple and striking black outlines, which, viewed in sequence,
create vivid moving images, whether of a girl stripping, a woman masturbating,
or a sado-masochist scene. The challenge in creating these flickbooks was to
transform scenes that would have been deemed by many as vulgar in their internet
format into a more acceptable, designed and sensual form – a precious
object in its own right –. The project illustrates just how vastly the
translation of visual content from one medium to another can alter a viewer's
perception.
Due to their success in the bookshops number 1 and 8 of the series have been
reprinted in an edition of 500. They are available separately whilst the series
is only being sold as a complete set of which each copy is hand-crafted and
signed.
