civilized ku # 972 / man +/- nature # 5 ~ things go better with Coke
Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 12:34PM 
Things go better with Coke ~ The Notch / Wilmington, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
+/-</> ~ The Notch / Wilmington, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenAs mentioned a few days ago, I am revisiting my man +/- nature series (formerly known as man v nature). Doing so has caused me to conjure up the idea of including 1 man +/- nature print (24"×60") with 3-4 life without the APA pictures (20"×20"/each) for the upcoming IMPACT Our Changing Environment exhibit. The idea being to hang 3 life without the APA pictures directly below the man +/- nature print, creating a 44"×60" picture "cluster". The prints would be hung with a small, +/- 1/2", separation between them.
Additionally, and in direct response to (and instigated by the same) Sven W's question - ...does the intended audience for the show know they are looking at composites?... , I intend to also include 4 small prints, 6"×6", of the un-composited pictures of the original Adirondack scenes used in the making of the life without the APA pictures. Even though there will be an Artist Statement which makes clear the composite images factor, the "before" pictures will make that factor clear for those who don't read the Artist Statement and reinforce it for those who have.
Reader Comments (1)
... and probably I am not the only one reader of your blog that would be interested of the "component images", too.
The results for sure look convincing, yet I am still pondering my position regarding composites. For me it at least stretches the border of photography and probably goes beyond that Barthes' statement about photography telling "it has been like that". On the other hand I know that the human brain is constantly re-combining elements, including visual ones, so composites maybe just preclude steps of the recipients vision.