Sentences with phrase «photographic images retain»

Yet photographic images retain special authority as records of visual experience.

Not exact matches

He noted that the young chimps» memory ability could be likened to «eidetic imagery» (photographic memory), a special ability to retain a detailed and accurate image of a complex scene or pattern found in some human children, but which, alas, fades with age.

Working from anecdotal photographs, each painting is deliberately built up through multiple layers of translucent pigment, a crucial aspect to the recontextualization of these images, a process which effectively dissolves the spatial / temporal specificity of the photographic source, while retaining its pictorial trace.

After a few minutes of exposure to the projected image, the powder retains a faint green image of the two faces on its surface, something akin to the «latent image» of photographic film or the veil of memory.

Similarly, McAlpine's fidelity to «origin» is palpable in the way she retains the grainy aggregate of the paving surfaces through an exploration into the fibrous qualities of the photographic image.

And as a bonus, his photographic images of South African flowers, accurately colored by his wife, were published and retain considerable scientific interest to this day.