Tagtraumtelefonie

TAGTRAUMTELEFONIE

In addition to his collaborations with photobook publishers, Alexander has, in recent years, embraced self-published magazines as a medium to document his meditative explorations. Tagtraumtelefonie continues this series, evoking an unceasing flow of mental imagery.

While the photographic series initially appears to depict a romanticized view of nature, subtle details introduce an element of dissonance. What role does the floppy disk play? Where does the transient, almost surreal glow of light originate? These peculiarities provoke entirely new questions for the viewer. Is the depicted world, in fact, a doppelgänger of our reality?

The zine weaves together disparate locales, temporalities, and emotional states across its pages. Modern high-tech lenses are eschewed in favor of experiments with vintage optics and optical toys such as filters and prisms. The photographic outcome remains largely unpredictable. On a technical level, Alexander’s work thus resists conscious, rational control.

The resulting images evoke parallels with field recordings in ambient music: ethereal visual sequences devoid of explicit narrative or predetermined interpretation. Instead, they function as ephemeral memories—imprecise and shadowy—awaiting the viewer’s subjective engagement to imbue them with meaning.

Tagtraumtelefonie
32 pages, A4 format (21 × 29,7 cm)
Duplex printing b/w
Printed on 115gsm grey recycling paper (Blue Angel)
Cover: 300gsm grey recycling paper (Blue Angel)
1. Edition of 50 (numbered)

Complementing the Tagtraumtelefonie fanzine, a limited edition is being released, featuring an image from the photographic series. Reflecting the ambiguity of the zine, the image is presented both as a photographic print on Fuji Archive photo paper and as a digital file stored on a floppy disk.

JPEG file on 3,5“ Floppy Disk
Vintage CD Case
C-Type print on Fuji Crystal Archive
(photo 9×12 cm, paper approx. 12,7 x 12,7 cm)
Cardboard packaging with stickers
Edition of 5

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