Archive for the ‘Images’ Category

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  Archetype 46: Scratches and dirty vs. reality

   

  You see your image. Every image, still or moving, presents itself as a structural collection of details. This confirms another literary idiom: every observer stipulates a personal reading trajectory in the image, every image appeals to an individual in…

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  Archetype 45: In the environment

   

  I am of the opinion that aesthetics opens up art. As soon as something appears to imply a sense of beauty, it receives attention more easily.
  Of course our own

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  Archetype 13: In a row

  ‘Taking photographs is a sort of overstatement, a heroic pairing with the material world’ according to Paul Rosenfeld.

  Thanks to Helga H.

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  Archetype 2: Golden mean

  There are many misconceptions and misrepresentations about the golden ratio.

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  Archetype 44: One is looking

  Because the camera (still or movie) is an instrument that makes us react differently to reality thanks to its typical properties (focussing, reproducibility, enlargement, etc.), we have become more alert and focus

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  Archetype 43:’ The picture that refers to itself’

  The image alerts us that looking is always a form of thinking, a form that delays judgment or decision for as long as possible. And when a conclusion is drawn, it is from the awareness that we can never exhaust…

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  Archetype 42: Make believe

  Thanks to Steven V.

  Baudrillard called this turnaround in the perception of reality the ‘precession (spin) of simulacra’. The illusion of lifestyle magazines, Hollywood films and Disney World is given preference and

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  Archetype 41: Interspace

  Thanks to Griet M.

  We human beings base ourselves on our memories and imagination and perceive the image as the common denominator of all the different moments and experiences. This is in

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  Archetype 40: Lost images

  Thanks to Beata J.

  People experience time in two separate ways simply by existing (mentally & physically).
  On the one hand there is the unmistakable constant of the cyclical (day &

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  Archetype 38: States of mind

  The author of these images creates doubts in the ‘authenticity’ of the images and the selected moment. Because of the abnormal structure of the image and the strange behaviour of the subject, we interpret and make associations.