Digital Truth
BoD – Books on Demand (Verlag)
978-3-8192-4446-9 (ISBN)
The project begins with a simple gesture: a digital image is photographed as it appears on a screen. That photo is displayed on a new screen and photographed again. The process is repeated 150 times - no filters, no edits, just camera and screen, screen and camera. With each iteration, the image changes. It blurs, fragments, mutates. What begins as a representation dissolves into abstraction.
But this is not just about image decay. It is about how repetition - especially in the digital age - replaces reflection. About how truth becomes fragile when filtered through algorithms, optimized for engagement, and stripped of ambiguity.
Structured in seven thematic chapters, Digital Truth moves from intimacy and memory to media logic, algorithmic influence, and human presence in a world shaped by machines. Texts and images intertwine - sometimes in dialogue, sometimes in tension. Together, they form a slow, quiet meditation on loss, distortion, and the possibility of meaning in an overmediated world.
This book doesn´t offer answers. It poses a question - in silence, in stillness:
What happens to meaning when everything is visible, but nothing is fully seen?
Details:
150 photographs, created through screen-to-screen reproduction
7 chapters: from "The Originals" to "The Mystery", "The Learnings" and "The Magic"
Essays in poetic prose, critical yet contemplative
Designed to be read slowly, revisited, and reflected upon
First Edition, June 2025
Published by BoD - Books on Demand GmbH
ISBN: 9783819244469
www.digital-truth.com
Valentin Vollmer is a German author, photographer, and conceptual artist. His work navigates the fragile intersections between technology, perception, and human meaning-making. With a background in psychology, education, and organizational development, he brings a deeply reflective lens to questions of communication, truth, and the digital condition. Vollmer`s creative practice is shaped by clarity, precision, and resistance to convenience. In an era of automation and AI-generated output, he insists on the value of manual process and sensory presence. Every photograph in Digital Truth was taken by hand. Every word was written with care. His method is minimal, but his intent is layered - exploring not only what is visible, but what visibility conceals. As a photographer, Vollmer works primarily in analog black-and-white film. As a writer, he blends essayistic clarity with poetic resonance. Across both mediums, he is concerned with the erosion of shared meaning in an age of accelerated mediation. Rather than offering critique from a distance, he embeds himself within the systems he examines - using repetition, distortion, and silence as both material and metaphor. Digital Truth is his first published photo-essay. It marks the beginning of a larger body of work investigating digital perception, algorithmic reality, and the aesthetics of disappearance. He lives and works independently, outside of major institutions, committed to a practice that privileges inquiry over output, depth over visibility, and artistic autonomy over market demands.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.2025 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 297 mm |
| Gewicht | 402 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Schlagworte | Digital Photography • Media Critique • Philosophy • Social • visual essay |
| ISBN-10 | 3-8192-4446-8 / 3819244468 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-8192-4446-9 / 9783819244469 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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