Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Monday, August 29, 2011

Vidéo: montagnes et pierres




Une vidéo de la fusion et mélange des roches des murs de la rue de l'Oranger à Arles-sur-Tech avec un sommet d'une montagne à proximité. Lorsqu'on marche en ville, les rues sont si étroites qu'on ne regard pas facilement les montagnes, jusqu'à on arrive à un espace ouvert, comme de la grande, les rues plus récentes sur les bords de la ville. Alors, les montagnes sont partout, mais les pierres sont disparus.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Arles-sur-Tech: A lesson in perspective

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Arles-sur-Tech is a lesson in perspective.

Everywhere in Arles-sur-Tech one sees the mountains. They appear so large - so overwhelming, that one immediately changes the visual relationship. Think Merleau-Ponty, Primacy of Perception.

When I (digitally) painted the mountains in relation to the houses, the mountains filled the page (screen). But when I photographed them, the houses took over, and the mountains were in the distance.

This image is mostly photography, with a bit of drawing mixed in, but with colors totally changed, and even the perspective changed. I had to remake the photograph entirely to make it feel like the place, the real place, not the simply documented one of a photograph.