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herman de vries wrote in the introduction:
"at the root of these series of photographic studies lies the fact that it is not only what one thinks or does which constructs our 'concept', our own conception of what life is, but also what one sees (hears, smells, feels). we are each in our own world. we are our own world.
- it consisted of a study on the unity of man with his world. in order to objectify this research, certain points in time had been randomly chosen in advance. susanne took a photo of me while telling me 'stop', this prompted me to fix my gaze in a certain direction. she then gave me the camera and i photographed what was in my sight.
- what you see here are the first series taken in 1973 and 1974 in and around our home in eschenau, but also in nepal. we made further series the following years during our travels, some in color (morocco, mauritania, senegal, india, nepal, thailand, laos). only a few small parts of these latter series have been published to this day.
- 1975 i called these studies 'true philosophy'
- 2007 i wrote the following comment: it is impossible to describe processes by seperating them from each other. they are all linked, they are together one.
- 2008:
to be here
to be this
what i see
i am
i am this
i am here
i am
where i dwell
- top
- a random sample of the seeings of my beings
centre des livres d'artistes
F-87500 saint-yrieix-la-perche, 2010
http://www.cdla.info/
22 × 16 cm
edition 300 copies.
- Cees de Boer gives an extensive analysis of this publication of herman de vries on his weblog. See: a random sample of the seeings of my beings [blog] to be ways to be all ways 23.12.2010; available at <http://tobeallways.blogspot.com> [accessed 23 January 2011].
- herman de vries, 'a random sample of the seeings of my beings', (in German) in to be (Stuttgart 1995) 82-85. Originally in Dutch in exhibition catalogue herman de vries [werken 1954-1980] (Groninger Museum : Groningen 1980) 172-177.