JULY 2018 - THIS week's PICTURE

Interior and exterior of a car in Florida: photo by Malcolm Aslett

 

The small size of the photograph can lead to being deceived about the scene.

Obviously quite a few photographs have been taken and put together here (obviously?). But what in the photograph tells us that? I don't think there is a device that could do this picture. We look inside the car, at the door open at left, the top of a palm tree, the roof of the car, the buildings beyond.. If the image were shown larger so that the eye of the specatator could get up close to each detal and move around it might be easier to fathom the unnatural nature of the information that is usually provided to us sequentially.

The detail below allows us to feel we are looking directly at the boy in the car and observing the interior light and details. Again, the world is usually not so accomodating to a single image with its range of light values and shadow.

If you study the car carefully you will find it doesn't actually fit together properly. The front door is attached to...nothing, while the back door looks as if it has two disjoined openings, the view through the car door window at left doesn't line up with background path. Cor blimey, as cockney chimney sweeps say even today.

So I like what is achieved here.

 

 

 

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