Author(s): Emma Nilsson (Text by); Steffen Siegel (Text by); Katharina Zimmermann (Text by); Sebastian Riemer (Artist); David Campany (Text by)

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An act of media archaeology: revealing the inauthenticity of photography as a representational medium.  German artist Sebastian Riemer (born 1982) explores press photography from the last century, revealing how the editing and retouching process transforms an image.  His meticulous black-and-white appropriations of these found images blur the boundary between photography and painting, documentation and invention.