The photographic image that always collapses several layers into one: The three dimensions of the world into a two-dimensional plane, the curved plane of the lens, the flat surface of the sensor or the emulsion, the plane of the printed picture treated with\u00a0the vectors of digital editing. The interaction of these planes is where images gain their story and their strength. The tension: The editing betrays the subject, the lens distorts the world it pretends to represent, the sensor loses resolution or dreams up colored noise, the emulsion is distorted by the development.<\/p>\n
To come up with the idea of \u201ctruth\u201d in this context is ridiculous.<\/p>\n
the illusion of collapse. (the \u201cgood\u201d picture makes you unaware of that: it just makes it \u201cas if\u201d you were there.)<\/p>\n
these are bad pictures. There was not enough developer in the tank so we got smears and underdeveloped parts. The surface of the film got scratched, the details diluted; and how all this gets boring after a while: how quickly the distortion of “something” becomes just a distortion.<\/p>\n
There is also a psychological undercurrent. The surfaces don\u2019t give away what\u2019s underneath; displacement by non-human entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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