Ville Lenkkeri: Reality in the Making

by Ville Lenkkeri (Photographs), Robert Enoch (Text)

Early in his career, Ville Lenkkeri studied film, and film remains a strong influence. In one series titled Movies, the young Helsinki School photographer (born in 1972) investigated the relationship between cinema and photography; his latest, The World As We Know It, employs a cinematic strategy. Here, he photographs paintings and scenes-within-a-scene, from murals in waiting rooms to three-dimensional dioramas in natural science museums, trompe-l'oeil art in settings he describes as "public places to which people do not have intimate relationships, but still a relationship...often the people in pictures have worked in these places for a long time." The presence of such a figure, a museum guard or a visitor, heightens the ambivalence the artist is looking for, keeping readers in the disturbing, unfocused zone between reality and fiction.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Chris]

Reality in the Making is a collection of images that represent the moving and still life of what is and was. This book contains the many pictures of exhibits or painted pictures or museums.

There are images of bones showing the progress of evolution, or the images of different battles and even small size rail cars. The stories in this book are made up in what the image of the image shows and why those events will always stay as they are.

A good picture book to look through and in the end, there are stories in the end that relate to the overall effect.