Description:
"Jules Spinatsch. Vienna MMIX-10008/70" presents this equally spectacular and fascinating social study in two volumes with individual concepts contrary to each other. Volume 1 shows 10.008 images in chronological order as continuous strip, each page representing one specific minute. Volume 2 presents a selection of 70 images, each documenting a moment of great intensity, intimacy, or a fascinating detail. Two essays on Spinatsch s project and the nature of documentary and surveillance photography, planning and coincidence complement the pictures. "Jules Spinatsch. Vienna MMIX-10008/70" is both, a beautiful photo book and the documentation of a sharp artistic research on human behaviour in (semi-) public space.
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Brief description: Nadine Olonetzky is a Zurich-based writer and photo expert, and an editor with Scheidegger & Spiess publishers.
Review Quotes: "The Vienna State Opera House has a state-of-the-art camera surveillance system. In 2009, for the Vienna Opera Ball, they ceded control of that system to Jules Spinatsch. . . . Vienna MMIX is a remarkable document of every image taken by each of those cameras, an anthropological study in class constructed."-- "British Journal of Photography"