Papers by Richard Whitlock
Membrana /4 "Augmented", 2018
Photographic Powers, edited by Mika Elo and Marko Karo – Helsinki Photomedia 2014, Helsinki, Oct 2015, 2015
Power is most effective when it acts unawares. Women for example may accept male domination or pe... more Power is most effective when it acts unawares. Women for example may accept male domination or peasants the rule of their overlord believing that this is part of the natural order of things. Something like this happens with photography, whose perspective system is taken for granted and believed to be correct. This essay challenges this photographic view of the world. It presents still and moving images by the present writer which, though photographic, employ other representational systems such as orthographic and other isometric projections which are equally coherent and correct. It asks how our feelings towards the world are affected by the sort of prism we choose to look through and seeks to demonstrate that reality is not an absolute, but a construct which we have made for ourselves and which can therefore be remodelled.
Photomediations Machine, 2014
The Street is a 'moving picture' of a street in Thessaloniki in Greece. It was made from many vid... more The Street is a 'moving picture' of a street in Thessaloniki in Greece. It was made from many video and still images, adjusted in such a way as to eliminate perspective from each element individually and from the scene as a whole. Instead of the central perspective which seems natural to photography, it employs an orthogonal parallel projection, like an architectural elevation. This positions the viewer, somewhat
Lundström, Jan-Erik (ed.) Kuinka valokuvaa katsotaan (How to know photographs), 2012
The rules of perspective set down in the Renaissance have been more honoured in the breach than i... more The rules of perspective set down in the Renaissance have been more honoured in the breach than in the observance. They derive from the camera obscura, which gave us the idea that there is a truer, more 'scientific' view to be had of the world if only we can stand away from things and see them more objectively. This claim to truth was inherited by the camera. This paper presents the opposite view, that a more generalised viewpoint is truer as it brings us closer to things, and also to each other. It draws on the examples of Chinese and Byzantine art, where central perspective was fully understood and consciously rejected. It shows how, with the computer, photography can now free itself from the perspective limitations of the lens.
Talks by Richard Whitlock
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Papers by Richard Whitlock
The videos discussed can be seen at https://vimeo.com/70762494 (The Street) and https://vimeo.com/141814699 (The Port)
The article can be read in Slovenian at tny.sh/9JIU4vv
Talks by Richard Whitlock
The videos discussed can be seen at https://vimeo.com/70762494 (The Street) and https://vimeo.com/141814699 (The Port)
The article can be read in Slovenian at tny.sh/9JIU4vv