David Pace

David Pace and Stephen Wirtz manipulate and transform wirephotos transmitted during World War II. Beginning with an extensive collection of originals assembled by Wirtz over many years, they scan the images, radically re-cropping and dramatically enlarging portions of the archival wirephotos. Their croppings and enlargements expose the artifacts of the wirephoto technology—the dots, lines, irregularities, and retouchings from the war...

This book would not exist if David hadn't come so close to death. In December 2016, David was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma. The oncologist gave him a thirty percent chance of survival. I didn't expect him to live. During the time her husband and photographer David Pace went through chemotherapy and radiation, Diane Jonte-Pace turned...