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The Heart of the Photograph
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The Heart of the Photograph

by David Duchemin
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
4h 19m
English
Rocky Nook
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How Can I Use Space and Scale?

THE EYE MOVES AROUND THE FRAME in much the same way as we move around the physical world: we take a path, we are led by what interests us, and we get trapped or blocked by things that stand in our way. In large, brightly lit rooms with high ceilings, we feel differently than we do in small, dark rooms with low ceilings and no windows. Our experience of a photograph is similar, despite it being only two-dimensional. In fact, I wonder if our experience of photographs can be even more claustrophobic because they lack that third dimension; the elements, all flattened, don’t give us as much room to move among them.

If we want to make images that have a sense of space, then we have to be conscious of the desire for ...

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