Article: Private Life. (Media).

Martin Mlecko

Martin Miecko's recent publication Private Life is a collection of 300 appropriated German snapshots, all made within the last three decades. Selected from a diverse pool of 10,000 images, none of them his own, Mlecko has brought together a collective image of what Germans look like when they allow themselves to be photographed in private. His selection of only color images unifies the collection, and all of them are vertical in format, portraying two or more figures. Mlecko has altered the images digitally by slightly shifting them out of focus, thereby literally taking the edge off and distancing the individuality of the subject from the viewer.

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