Touchless Automatic Wonder: Found Text Photographs from the Real World

by Lewis Koch

Created as a poetic and visual journey, Touchless Automatic Wonder spans twenty-five years and four continents. These striking photographs capture “found text”: the sometimes mysterious, occasionally humorous, often cryptic presence of words in the everyday landscape. In Koch’s lyrical sequencing, the images reveal obscure and eccentric voices in their various and distinctive roles on the daily stage of the world around us. This intriguing approach at the intersection of language, image, and the social landscape will appeal to readers interested in contemporary art and photography, popular culture, and conceptual concerns both literary and visual.
 

Genres: Photography

112 pages, Hardcover

First published September 15, 2009

Reviews

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

The hieroglyphs of urban abandonment - beautiful photos. Abandoned places really fascinate me; what we leave behind as we move on to other areas tells us much of the dreams and aspirations of those who came before us. This book makes takes the viewer into the 'everyday surreal' that is waiting just around the corner.

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wisconsin photographer Lewis Koch provides very powerful settings for found text.

[Daniel Watkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gorgeous found art black and white photographs.