Ryan Gander
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A photograph showing a birds-eye view of a table containing six art and design books open at the page with an image of ‘Lover’s Teaglass’ with saucer and stirrer (heat-resistant glass, chrome-plated steel, ebony) (1926) by Josef and Anni Albers. Conceptually the glass is unique; designed with the ability to be passed from person to person without risk of burning ones fingers, hence the title, a fact that is rarely recorded and never illustrated in the documentary photography of the glass. The photograph amends this anomaly by replacing images in the books presenting the piece, with images of the tea glass being used, handed from one person to another.