Ralph Ueltzhoefer probably took the saying “a picture is worth a
thousands words” because he actually builds detailed images from
thousands of written words.
The Mannheim-based German artist takes photos of celebrities from the
Internet and recreates their portraits with words randomly-selected
from Internet biographies, fragments of words and phrases, and Wikipedia
articles that have come to define these famous people. Ueltzhoefer sets
the white text line by line on the dark background, thus making a
statement about how media defines our every day lives in a Web-centered
world. His Textportraits are a symbiosis between text and photo, biography and portrait, a readable version of two different components.
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