Sentences with phrase «observation of the everyday world»

Maybe it's just a coincidence of date and place, but I always think of Ghirri as the Italo Calvino of photography: Like Calvino (at least in his «Difficult Loves» mode) Ghirri engages in very close observation of the everyday world, but always manages to find the surreal in it — but again like Calvino, the strangeness seems more profound and structural than merely freaky.

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Ancient cosmologies were developed on the basis of phenomenal observations of the world — that is, things as they appeared to everyday observation.

His parables reveal a close and sympathetic observation of everyday life: the farmer's sowing and reaping, the shepherd and his flock, the house built on the rock, the leaven in the dough, the lost coin and the lost sheep, the father's joy in the return of a wayward son and the elder brother's peevish jealousy, the mother forgetting her agony for joy that a man has been born into the world, the workers standing idle in the marketplace because no one has hired them, and many other instances.

Nochlin's decades - old observation that realism would increasingly mimic the hyperreal — the world as seen through a lens — and re-frame literal objects in subtle ways seems to hold true for Sherald's array of everyday people.

Moulène's photo series document in retrospect temporally determined alterations of forms taken from everyday life as a result of changing production conditions, but which simultaneously also reveal an observation of the world as seen from the perspective of an attentive flâneur.