Mark Hampton
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Definitely, pictures having an object in front of what appears to be the subject as in "kylie" belong to a thread about how the viewer reads the image. I should say that I hesitated to publish my picture of a beach in this thread. In the end, I decided against, because I am not quite sure I understand what is the exact subject of this thread. It started with the discussion about the viewer reading, but then moved to post-treatment adding noise or subsampling the data (the little squares of jpeg). I am quite confused.
Jerome,
the thread is called reading the reading.... the repetition is important... when making work we make reading of light... how the light is read in the 1st place (and all the aspects that that encompasses) by the maker is their control and informs how the second reading takes place...
for me the thread is an explanation of a thought process... it questions why at all stages - why should images be sharpe / blurred / broken etc - why do we focus where we focus - do these choices inform the work...
the simple answer is they do - we may use machines but we use do not have to approach the process we use as mechanical..
the second reading (the viewer) can be informed by the 1st - but it doesn't have to be.. content can be mistaken for style...
when looking at work i ask why, what is the subject - does the whole from start to finish push the subject (or subvert it)...
Brittney / Kylie - are imagined works - i could not see the image - they only exist as data and are no more real than the subjects to me...
it seems simple to me as the maker but as ever they are issue with the work that I need to resolve but they are the interesting aspects that I will learn from...
Cem - control and + at the same time will enlarge them, sorry there is so little realestate used - i have learned from a thread the image should be sized in proprtion to the amount of deatail it contains !
cheers