Falmouth Photography BA Top-up PHO610 CRJ week11
09 December, 2019
Photographs are always discussed about their image theirselves. Therefore, the materiality as a 3 dimensional object has never become the point of question in a long while. Some artists try to liberate photographs from nominal flat state of object-hood.
Nerhol, Japanese photographer duo, is one of the interesting practitioners in regard to the materiality of photography. They continue to produce artworks themed consumption, genesis and oblivion the modern society entails. Their new set of works, Misunderstanding Focus(Nerhol, 2012), represent photographs’ material aspect really well. To create this project, they ask the subject to try and stay as motionless as possible while taking multiple portraits over a three minute period. The stack of images are then sliced through to create a graduated crater effect, showing the passage of time like the rings of a tree. They call this approach as Time-Lapse Portrait.
These days, multidimensional presentment tends to be encouraged by conceptual art institutions. In Japan, Photo MIYOTA(Asama International Photo Festival)(2018-) becomes an annual event which exhibit latest conceptual art photography in each individualistic style. Not only showing pictures which were printed on paper as usual, they proposed several 3-dimensional installations using photographs printed on various bases such as large fabric sheet or metal.
I red Sontag’s On Photography(1978) several times. And I think this text is fundamentally important to argue photography from all angles. However, to criticise her masterpiece in detail, I need more time to investigate beyond this first period.
References:
Committee, A. I. P. F. E. (2018-). Photo Miyota: Asama International Photo Festival. Retrieved from https://asamaphotofes.jp
Masur, L. P., & Recorded Books, I. (2010). The Soiling Of Old Glory : the Story Of A Photograph That Shocked America. Retrieved from http://rbdigital.oneclickdigital.com
Nerhol. (2012). Misunderstanding Focus. In (pp. The portraits from “Misunderstanding Focus” were created by taking 200 shots of a single person over a span of 203 minutes. The images are then stacked and carved into to reveal the subtle differences and movement of the subject. The result is a series of a completely new kind of “portrait” – a three-dimensional carving that uses the unconscious movement of the subject to reveal the individuality of the persons themselves.).
Sontag, S. (1978). On photography.
Nerhol, Japanese photographer duo, is one of the interesting practitioners in regard to the materiality of photography. They continue to produce artworks themed consumption, genesis and oblivion the modern society entails. Their new set of works, Misunderstanding Focus(Nerhol, 2012), represent photographs’ material aspect really well. To create this project, they ask the subject to try and stay as motionless as possible while taking multiple portraits over a three minute period. The stack of images are then sliced through to create a graduated crater effect, showing the passage of time like the rings of a tree. They call this approach as Time-Lapse Portrait.
Stills from Misunderstanding Focus(2012)
These days, multidimensional presentment tends to be encouraged by conceptual art institutions. In Japan, Photo MIYOTA(Asama International Photo Festival)(2018-) becomes an annual event which exhibit latest conceptual art photography in each individualistic style. Not only showing pictures which were printed on paper as usual, they proposed several 3-dimensional installations using photographs printed on various bases such as large fabric sheet or metal.
Examples of exhibition of Photo MIYOTA(2018)
I red Sontag’s On Photography(1978) several times. And I think this text is fundamentally important to argue photography from all angles. However, to criticise her masterpiece in detail, I need more time to investigate beyond this first period.
References:
Committee, A. I. P. F. E. (2018-). Photo Miyota: Asama International Photo Festival. Retrieved from https://asamaphotofes.jp
Masur, L. P., & Recorded Books, I. (2010). The Soiling Of Old Glory : the Story Of A Photograph That Shocked America. Retrieved from http://rbdigital.oneclickdigital.com
Nerhol. (2012). Misunderstanding Focus. In (pp. The portraits from “Misunderstanding Focus” were created by taking 200 shots of a single person over a span of 203 minutes. The images are then stacked and carved into to reveal the subtle differences and movement of the subject. The result is a series of a completely new kind of “portrait” – a three-dimensional carving that uses the unconscious movement of the subject to reveal the individuality of the persons themselves.).
Sontag, S. (1978). On photography.