'The painter constructs, the photographer discloses....but photographic seeing has to be constantly renewed with new shocks, whether of subject matter or technique, so as to produce the impression of violating ordinary vision'
-Susan Sontag, On Photography
Myoung -Ho-Lee - Tree no. 1, 2006
Installation/Photograph
David Hockney - Pearblossom Hwy, 11-18th April 1986
Photographic collage, taken over 1 week
Jules Spinatsch - Panorama, Position B, Temporary Discomfort 2003
Panorama/Installation of 1446 still shots from interactive network camera,taken over the course of a few hours, during the Global Economic Summit, Davos, Switzerland.
Panorama/Installation of 1446 still shots from interactive network camera,taken over the course of a few hours, during the Global Economic Summit, Davos, Switzerland.
Michael Wesely - 5.4.1997 - 3.6.1999, Postdamer Platz, Berlin
2 yr exposure of construction at Postdamer Platz
Iwan Baan - Panorama
Image taken with constructed camera
Photosynth is a free online program that allows you assemble multiple photographs of one place/thing/person into a 3d matrix. You can then navigate through this matix on screen. The program works by linking common points in the photographs, and assembling these into a 'point cloud'. Above is a quick video of how it looks
You can try it out at the photosynth website by installing the software. Two synths worth checking out are the 'Head of Greg', and 'Petra - the treasury' Its easy to navigate, just scroll and click on the outlined photographs. If you press 'CTRL' while scrolling, you get a view of the point cloud only, which can make for interesting viewing. It presents a lot of opportunities for a new ways of representing space.
