Graham Dolphin
Graham Dolphin, Every word in Vogue, July 2001 (detail), 2001, bromide print
Graham Dolphin’s Everyword in Vogue, July 2001 is literally that: every word from one edition of the fashion magazine – from front to back cover, editorial and adverts – transcribed and printed in minute text on one bromide print identical in size to a page from the magazine itself. Stripped of its associated glossy imagery, each word and sentence – from the cover price to a supermodel’s name – is allocated the same level of significance. Two sound works take the same base material to achieve a further degree of separation from their source, one employing a computer’s ‘Speak Selection’ option to recite the entire text – complete with bizarre and humorous mispronunciations of words unfamiliar to the computer’s dictionary – the other translating the text into Morse code, rendering it unintelligible to all but a knowledgeable few.
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