Sentences with phrase «reality than a photograph»

These are prettier in reality than the photographs indicate.

Therefore, despite their hyper - reality, his landscapes seem more about the painting process than they are about the view they depict «It has more reality than a photograph,» Richter explained, «because a painting is an object in itself, because its visibly hand - painted, because it has been tangibly and materially produced» Richter continues (ibid).

Not exact matches

If, in a portrait so produced, the lines of the subject have been made rather sharper than reality and the contrasts somewhat more vivid than life, it succeeds as no photograph could in eliminating the irrelevancies involved in all events in time, and highlights the essential, enduring meaning.

It looks far smaller in the metal than it appears in photographs, with a wheelbase similar to a Mini, and its 18in wheels appear far bigger in reality courtesy of some neat design illusion, extending the spokes onto the tyre sidewalls.

Encapsulating this idea is Jo Spence's iconic work Beyond the Family Album (1979), a candid exploration of how we portray ourselves to the outside world as opposed to our daily realities, with families «encouraged only to photograph their leisure, their consumption or their ownership, and to show the «harmony» of their lives», rather than their failures, heartbreaks, or insecurities.

«His images expose the way in which photographs condense a particular concept of the world at a particular point in time and space rather than capture an inalterable reality.»

More than a century of attempts to depict, through photographs, a reality beyond appearances is testament to a stubborn conviction that what can be seen is not all there is.

Challenging the indexical nature traditionally associated with photography, his abstract and representational photographic bodies of work each in their own way put forward the notion of the photograph as object — rather than as a record of reality.

The color - toned photographs of Cuban born artist Gory focuses on process rather than product, suggesting we question the nature of reality.