Item Summary

The Pixel War series engages with the visual legacy of conflict by reconfiguring photographs taken by renowned war photographers through deliberate digital distortion. Drawing on Robert Capa’s dictum - “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough”; the artist magnifies and reframes documentary images until their formal coherence dissolves into pixelated abstraction. At close range, these works appear fragmented and illegible; yet from a distance, they regain recognizability, underscoring the resilience of visual memory in reconstructing familiar scenes despite material degradation.

The series incorporates imagery from diverse historical and geopolitical contexts, including the Vietnam War, the Normandy landings, and the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. By reworking these iconic photographs, Pixel War foregrounds the tension between image, memory, and recognition within the visual culture of war.

Descriptive Information

Title
Pixel War - 1-5
Sort Title
pixel war - 1-5
Creator of work
Liankevich, Andrei
Language
Belarusian
English
Date Created
2013
Format
Photographs
Series
Goodbye, Motherland
Rights Statement
In Copyright

Discovery Information

Subject
Arts and culture
Photography
Politics and government
War
Geographic Subject
Belarus
Geographic Origin
Belarus

Physical Characteristics

Height
20
Width
30
Page Count
5
File Count
5

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton Slavic Collections
Box number
Digital box #1
Folder number
261-262
Barcode
00000000000000
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/ephemera_folders/8482a979-d75a-44f8-b2e4-83b088f507de/manifest