Monday, May 25, 2009

Truth and Photography///

I am totally and ruthlessley stealing here from Emily's blog but i think that this photographer has relevance for what i am doing at the moment. (her post here - http://emilyhlavac09.blogspot.com/)

Jad Oakes - 'Preserving Time' series.




These images are created fromt he layering of static images (photographs) As Emily is looking at them they make an exellant relationship between the stillness of photography and the idea of the mooving image. The reason i ahve stolen them is that they also make an interesting reference to the idea of the truth in the photographic image. Because these images are several still shots layerd up onto each other, multiple "decisive moments" if you like, does this give them a closer relationship to the truth>?
Sure we dont see like this, but then we dont see in still images ether and we hold the still photograph as a document of the truth...

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