Brad Feuerhelm Closed Circuit #5 Unique Artist Book
Blending vernacular photography, sculpture, and the photobook, Brad Feuerhelm's series of unique photobooks, Closed Circuit (2025) examines the role of what remains unseen when thinking of the photobook as an object.
Instead of glorifying images, sequences, and edits, these burnt offerings are ritualized totems of forms. They cannot be "read” outside of what they appear on their surface, asking for belief, imagination, memory, cultural debris, and an understanding of reliquary objects to be assumed to be interpreted. his allows the viewer to project onto them, to discover their own process of interpretation.
The images were created by burning a box of anonymous photographs. They were salvaged from the fire and have since been archivally-sealed. The act of fire being as essential to their making as printing, binding, and the elements of offset photobook production.
These objects can only be serialized, they cannot be reproduced.
Each book is roughly 4×6 inches. Its page count is determined by how many pages were stuck together during the firing process/act of creative destruction.
Blending vernacular photography, sculpture, and the photobook, Brad Feuerhelm's series of unique photobooks, Closed Circuit (2025) examines the role of what remains unseen when thinking of the photobook as an object.
Instead of glorifying images, sequences, and edits, these burnt offerings are ritualized totems of forms. They cannot be "read” outside of what they appear on their surface, asking for belief, imagination, memory, cultural debris, and an understanding of reliquary objects to be assumed to be interpreted. his allows the viewer to project onto them, to discover their own process of interpretation.
The images were created by burning a box of anonymous photographs. They were salvaged from the fire and have since been archivally-sealed. The act of fire being as essential to their making as printing, binding, and the elements of offset photobook production.
These objects can only be serialized, they cannot be reproduced.
Each book is roughly 4×6 inches. Its page count is determined by how many pages were stuck together during the firing process/act of creative destruction.
Blending vernacular photography, sculpture, and the photobook, Brad Feuerhelm's series of unique photobooks, Closed Circuit (2025) examines the role of what remains unseen when thinking of the photobook as an object.
Instead of glorifying images, sequences, and edits, these burnt offerings are ritualized totems of forms. They cannot be "read” outside of what they appear on their surface, asking for belief, imagination, memory, cultural debris, and an understanding of reliquary objects to be assumed to be interpreted. his allows the viewer to project onto them, to discover their own process of interpretation.
The images were created by burning a box of anonymous photographs. They were salvaged from the fire and have since been archivally-sealed. The act of fire being as essential to their making as printing, binding, and the elements of offset photobook production.
These objects can only be serialized, they cannot be reproduced.
Each book is roughly 4×6 inches. Its page count is determined by how many pages were stuck together during the firing process/act of creative destruction.