Highlights and Shadows Twelve | ©2013 David Allio
This is the twelveth in a series of fourteen still life photographs presenting Highlights and Shadows on a hallway wall. What does it look like to you?
"The realm of visual composition embraces the art elements of balance, color, form, harmony, line, mass, pattern, rhythm, shape, space, texture, tone, value, and volume. In the broadest sense, composition is the structure of a picture apart from its subject and style, material and technique; compositional structure is fundamentally an underlying matrix or substrate of abstract design from which the blossoming of visual association, meaning, and symbolism originates."[1]
[1] Faber, David L, and Daniel M. Mendelowitz. A Guide to Drawing. Australia: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2012. Print., p. 111.
Camera: Nikon D60 | Lens: AF VR Nikkor Zoom 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED | Focal Length: 70mm | Exposure: f/8 – 1/1000th – ISO 400
Highlights and Shadows Eleven | ©2013 David Allio
This is the eleventh in a series of fourteen still life photographs presenting Highlights and Shadows on a hallway wall.
Sabrina Fadial of VCFA recently shared this term: ostranenie – encouraging people to see common things as strange, wild, or unfamiliar; defamiliarizing what is known in order to know it differently or more deeply. It makes me wonder what the binary would be. Any ideas?
Camera: Nikon D60 | Lens: AF VR Nikkor Zoom 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED | Focal Length: 85mm | Exposure: f/8 – 1/50th – ISO 400
Highlights and Shadows Ten | ©2013 David Allio
This is the tenth in a series of fourteen still life photographs presenting Highlights and Shadows on a hallway wall. The photographs in this series represent a barely three-dimensional scene in a two-dimensional format.
"Perspective subjects the artistic phenomenon to space and even mathematically exact rules." The mathematical concept of the symbolic use of visual space proposed by Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) indicated that perspective "looks more like a mathematical than an artistic matter."[1]
What mathematics are hidden within this visual representation?
[1] Panofsky, Erwin, and Christopher S. Wood. 1991. Perspective as symbolic form. New York: Zone Books., p67 and 43.
Camera: Nikon D60 | Lens: AF VR Nikkor Zoom 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED | Focal Length: 65mm | Exposure: f/8 – 1/200th – ISO 400
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