There's a fine line between fact and fiction, between a moment and a perfect representation of that moment. Melissa Denes, Picture Perfect, the … [Read more...]
When Photography Catches Time
Rather than considering photography as a means to capture an instant, some artists subverted this practice to express duration in time. Sometimes through collages, sequences and superimpositions, in some cases through a single long shot, photographers are exploring different methods to synthesize the fourth dimension within the bidimensional range of a frame. The results provide a wide variety of unexpected solutions, some extremely synthetic while other very fragmented, pushing further the boundaries of the practice.
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Comic as Theater: Gianni De Luca’s Romeo and Juliet (1976)
Gianni De Luca was an Italian comic book artist known for his drawing mastery and the variety of techniques he introduced into the comic art. His … [Read more...]
Forgotten Corners, by Andrew G. Fisher
Andrew G. Fisher is an artist who opens a constant relationship between two media, photography and illustration. Time is frozen in black and white … [Read more...]
Early Digital, Unintentional Collages: Fireflies by William Larson
William Larson is an American photographer who continuously experimented with different media in order to produce meaningful works and question the … [Read more...]
Persistence of Light, Works by Tokihiro Sato
Tokihiro Sato is a contemporary Japanese photographer who was trained at first as a sculptor and later, during the 1980s, developed an interest in a … [Read more...]
‘Things are Queer’ by Duane Michals (1973)
This 1973 series of nine photographs by Duane Michals (1932, -) is a short narrative piece with a twist at each step, a discovery of an unexpected … [Read more...]
Tabula Rasa by Ben Alper (2011)
Ben Alper is an artist based in North Carolina. He curates The Archival Impulse, a project dedicated to his personal collection of vernacular … [Read more...]
Like Notes on a Pentagram: Eka Sharashidze’s Wall People
Eka Sharashidze is a Georgian artist currently living in Berlin. For her, photography is the expressive medium used to create collage images. In the … [Read more...]
Attempts to Represent Time through Photography: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Theaters Series
Starting in the late 1970s, Hiroshi Sugimoto took pictures of cinemas interiors and drive-ins with the aim of encapsulate the … [Read more...]
The Horizons of Ger Dekkers
The work of Ger Dekkers (Dutch photographer, living and working in Giethoorn, the Netherlands) is characterized by landscape photographs … [Read more...]
‘A Multiplicity of Elements Operating in an Aleatory Manner’: Ray Metzker’s Composites
At a first glimpse Ray Metzker's composites may look like repetitions of the same shot, assembled like an action in "Arte Programmata". A further look … [Read more...]
“History Images”, “Horizons”, “Cities”: Photographs by Sze Tsung Leong
Sze Tsung LEONG (American and British, born Mexico City 1970) is an artist based in New York. His work includes the series Cities, a detailed … [Read more...]
“The day I didn’t turn with the world”, by Guido van der Werve
In 2007 artist Guido van der Werve stood almost immobile for 24 hours on the axis of the world in the geographic North pole. He only imperceptibly … [Read more...]
Blind Walk. Photographs by Florian Bong-kil Grosse
The photographer visually documented the movements of a blind person being given directions from a distance. The awkard, hesitant gestures contrast … [Read more...]
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The passing of time
Photographer Michael Wesely keeps its shutters open up to three years, claiming he could as well go on indefinitely. Taking the longest exposures … [Read more...]
Making Future Magic: iPad light painting
Creative communication agency Dentsu London + BERG produced beautiful light painting images using an iPad as a typograhic tool. Another playful use of … [Read more...]
