Digital Truth

01.07.2025

Englisch

9783819244469

BoD – Books on Demand

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Valentin Vollmer

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Broschiert

Valentin Vollmer: 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.

digital photography, Media Critique, Visual Essay, Social, Philosophy

JB - Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein AB - Kunst: allgemeine Themen

297 mm

21 cm