Mirrors

Foil-embossed hardcover with tip-on verso96 pages, 70 full color plates7 x 9 in. / 178 x 229 mm2016ISBN 978-1-942953-27-2   Mirrors was derived from Eric Oglander’s online project, Craigslist Mirrors. Described as a document of Oglander’s continued search via Craigslist for compelling photos of mirrors, his site is a display case for these culled objects; artifacts recovered from a well of online obscurity.   Refocusing the essence of the project’s emergent themes (anonymity, fragmented realities, voyeurism, notions of truth, and crowdsourcing) the book distills Oglander's project down from a diffuse cloud of images-of-objects-that-cast-images, back again to object itself. The images collected here pull the viewer's gaze through the page to the cross-section of two narrow planes of someone’s reality. They are glances that teem with a sense of further exploration if we could just direct our view behind us.   Mirrors embodies Oglander’s desire to explore minimal forms amongst a vast com