Inspired by Russian avant-garde artist Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), Untitled (Alexander Rodchenko,1928) is a series of self-portraits of a vintage Leica I camera, the first 35mm camera and the same model Rodchenko used). Taken by the camera itself with the help of an mirrored optical device, these images narrate and reflect the camera’s own history and identity. As with most of Lee’s work, this background information is not conveyed in any obvious way, but, instead, through allusions in titles and sleights of formal strategies. Cultural history, as Lee emphasizes, is not stable and fixed; it is in a state of perpetual flux, “constantly shifting and changing, continually, repeatedly and endlessly.”
