September 2017 - THIS week's PICTURE

Window View in a Smithsonian Art Gallery, DC: photo by Malcolm Aslett

Thirteen windows. In reality there are only twelve. After having thirteen pillars and squares in a recent photo of a scene in the Library of Congress this continues the theme.

This is composed of thirteen photographs parallel and central (mostly) to each window at a consistent distance and put them together.

This means the view outside and the people and the furniture and sculptures in front will be all out of whack. So the choices I made were to respect the window view, as if it were the picture on the wall. That is why some figures and objects end abruptly at the windows edge. Outside the building across the way has it's door repeated eight times just to remind you of the way the world works without you noticing it.

The far left photograph benefits from a wall that picks up the light and changes the exposure greatly in comparison to the rest. One obvious thing to do with this image is to increase the contrast and make the figures almost black silhouettes.

Looking or seeing? When you check out the dictionary definitions there is a difference (though I'm not sure if the definitions agree with the general understandings of the terms).

I think a photo like this is about both looking and seeing.

 

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