{"id":5642,"date":"2015-02-12T09:17:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=5642"},"modified":"2015-02-12T09:17:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T14:17:27","slug":"a-collection-of-skulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2015\/02\/12\/a-collection-of-skulls\/","title":{"rendered":"A Collection of Skulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Page_sucker_numero_un_skull.jpg\"<\/a>Ludovic Burel\u2019s book Page_Sucker_Numero_Un_Skull.JPG<\/em> is a collection of pictures of skulls.\u00a0 From humorous pictures like skulls on socks and action figures to scientific photographs, this book shows every kind of skull imaginable.\u00a0 Although there is no text written by the author, the pages that really stand out are about the killing fields of Cambodia and destroyed villages in Palestine. Juxtaposed with the lighthearted pictures of keychains and decals, these tragedies stand out all the more.\u00a0 Although there is no explanation from the author, the message is clear.\u00a0\"Page_sucker_numero_un_skull.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Much of Ludovic Burel\u2019s work deals with photographs he finds, often of anonymous subjects on the web.\u00a0\u00a0 Although he does give citations in the back of the book, it reads much as though one had performed a google image search, offering up a huge collection of photos that are related but without much initial context.\u00a0\u00a0The title of the book, “page sucker” is the name of a website extractor software which Burel uses to compile 208 images of skulls collected online via a single keyword (‘Skull’).\u00a0 Burel presents the images as he found them, with little or no modification, as though it was an archeology project of the web. \"Page_sucker_numero_un_skull.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Page sucker_numero un_skull.jpg \/ Ludovic Burel. \u00a0Paris : tux-tv.net, 2002<\/a> is available in the Fine Arts collection.\u00a0 Available at Widener Library is another of Burel\u2019s works Archives du biopouvoir : Marseille, 18e-20e si\u00e8cles \/ pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es par Philippe Arti\u00e8res & Ludovic Burel.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thanks to Emma Clement, Santo Domingo Library Assistant, for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Ludovic Burel\u2019s book Page_Sucker_Numero_Un_Skull.JPG is a collection of pictures of skulls.\u00a0 From humorous pictures like skulls on socks and action figures to scientific photographs, this book shows every kind of skull imaginable.\u00a0 Although there is no text written […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72743],"tags":[113736,72720],"class_list":["post-5642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-arts-library","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo-collection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-1t0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5642"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}