Sentences with phrase «memories than photographs»

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The ability to retrieve a memory decays exponentially, and after only a month more than 85 per cent of our experiences will have slipped beyond reach, unless boosted by artificial aids such as diaries and photographs.

I guess that's one of the things that makes them different from photographs, in that a photograph might be a record, a snap, one moment — a painting I think is about creating a small world around that photo... I really like that idea of something that you can enter like a box or an exhibition space, and enter these little rooms which for me are memories, but it's not about nostalgia — it's more about setting up something that's still living — so it's almost they're all in the present, rather than in the past.»

Rather than working from photographs, she often creates work from memory or sketchbooks that act as visual notebooks of her day - to - day experiences.

Nan Goldin has pursued one project for years now, and the frank accumulation of memory carries far more emotion than any room of her photographs ever can.

Subjects of his paintings are developed from both of the Jamaican and British culture, and he prefers to create his works rather from photographs, than memory.

A self - described «emotional science project,» Bernadette Mayer's Memory — 1,100 - odd photographs made by shooting a thirty - six - exposure roll of 35 - mm color slide film on each of the thirty - one days of July 1971, accompanied by six - plus hours of diaristic narration that the artist later revised into a book — is one of those conceptual pieces from the 1960s and»70s that have been better known as anecdote than as physical fact.

Like memory, these photographs document feelings more than actual events.

The picture superiority effect is also present in spatial memory, where locations of items and photographs were remembered better than locations of words.