Colección 1 Volumen I

"Can a motivation generate anxiety? For Victor obtaining each photograph entailed activity, enthusiasm, frenzy and concern. It is important to be specific about this.
His state of tension was not produced by the always haphazard incident of selecting images for sale on the Internet, the anxiety about receiving them in perfect condition or the logistics involved in dispatching them from different parts of the world. Not even by the unease prior to the fulfilment of a desire. With time Victor had demonstrated his capacity for dallying, for daydreaming brought on by the act of speculating about the tactility of an image seen on a computer screen. The unease he felt was proportional to the photographs that he received daily, weekly and monthly through the post. The challenge was not caused by lack of direction, since there were many clearly identifiable lines to follow. The challenge posed by the ever more extensive group of photographs had a formal and utilitarian origin."

IMAGES-ARCHIVE: ANTONIO MENCHEN
TEXT: MARIANO MAYER
TRANSLATION: ROBERT CURWEN
EDITION: I00 COPIES
DESIGNED BY RODOLFO TEMPERLEY

Printed in Madrid, 2021