How to Move a Mountain by Caleb Stein
How to Move a Mountain is Caleb Stein’s photographic essay of the Carrara marble quarry, a series of intimate portraits of robotic arms and raw marble that offer nuance to today’s debate around artistic authorship and AI and computer-augmented art.
Caleb Stein captures Robotor in Italy for Smithsonian Magazine, where robots sculpt marble under digital guidance, challenging traditional notions of artistic authorship. His black and white images intimately document this blend of ancient craft and modern technology. The artist book is accompanied by an essay by David Campany, which details the history between photography and sculpture and Stein’s place within this lineage.
The title on the book cover is set in Romie Regular (designed by Margot Lévêque).
The book’s interior combines headlines in Romie with body copy set in Niveau Grotesk.
