The photographs create tension between urban reality and its potential chaos leaving the possibility to envision a strange and overthrown world.
Not exact matches
They sought inspiration in the era's art, specifically the work of the photo - realists, who painted
photographs in a style that is both hyperreal and at one remove from reality — evoked by the variety of reflecting surfaces seen in the film — and the op artists, who deployed contrasting visual elements to
create vibrating surface
tensions on a single plane.
Michael Almereyda's William Eggleston in the Real World juxtaposes the master photographer's mistrust of words with Almereyda's special way with words —
creating a
tension that reminds me of Walker Evans»
photographs bouncing off of James Agee's prose (and vice versa) in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
Even rudimentary scenes, such as Mikael's scanning through boxes of old
photographs for any clue he can find, adds to the
tension, particularly in the way the eerie
photographs and facial expressions
create the mood of dread and foreshadowing of murderous intent.
By interacting with the
photographed shadows in the image, the real cast shadows of the salient frame
create a coalescence of figurative and real spaces, activating the symbolic
tension between materiality and immateriality.
Shot in the oddly diminutive rooms of a derelict house, the
photographs create an intriguing
tension between reality and fantasy.
Carolyn Conrad
creates sculptural tableaus before raising her camera to make
photographs with psychological
tension.
The component images of each work are hung an inch apart from each other to
create tension and to invite relation to individual
photographs as well as to the overall image.
But he was lured by his neighbor, fellow Bauhaus master and photography pioneer László Moholy - Nagy... Feininger... experimented with extreme cropping, in which the entire context in a
photograph is jettisoned,
creating a
tension between representation and abstraction and conveying immediacy and spontaneity, as seen in this photo of a locomotive in a train yard covered in snow, which seems both looming and playful.»