Replica : Art Paper Editions : 9789493146792 : 9493146790 : 07 Dec 2021 : 'Replica' suggest a new reading of the body and the model as a pure image, a pure tool, without referring to any representative identity, hereby ignoring today's contemporary society of what the self should be. Lino refers strongly to American mid-century photographer William Mortensen, who states that a body is simply considered to be "a machine that needs adjustments. " According to Mortensen the body must be the basis, "representation of personality and emotion [...] are irrelevant and misleading". There is a certain dehumanization in Mortensen's approach to the model, a return of the body to an object without meaning, in front of the camera. Mortensen saw models as clay that form the image, a body was articulated only by the operator's intention. He wanted to strip the figure from its emotion and personality, so that we, as an audience, could consider the body as a formed prop and stare at the image as t