photograph of a copy of
DDDDoomed, Or, Collectors & Curators of the Image - A Brief Future History of the Image Aggregator by R. Gerald Nelson unopened, published on Tumblr for online distribution by artist, also entitled, “
set it free” 2011
“And as if each viewer’s history and state of mind were not already enough to drastically scramble any possibility of an image being interpreted in a manner that was intended by its creator; the always-altering and heterogeneous environments of the Internet had made it even more exponentially possible for an image’s meaning to be (mis)translated in ways that were never imagined by the image’s creator.” p. 33
reblogged on Tumblr 445 times, where the title of the book, author and quotation were removed by users in the process.