Category: MY PHOTO JOURNEY
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Seeing Photographs Clearly: What Viewing Distance Reveals About Your Vision
When we look at a photograph on the wall of a gallery, we seldom think about how far away we stand. Yet distance matters. Too close and we cannot take in the whole image. Too far and the detail is lost. For an A3 photograph, with a short caption beneath it, the optimum position is…
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Reimagining the language of photography
Photography’s vocabulary is steeped in the imagery of military conflict and the hunt. This is not accidental. When the medium emerged in the nineteenth century, the people who adopted it often moved in the same social worlds as soldiers, explorers, and sportsmen. Many were men of means who hunted game and collected trophies, and they…
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