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2017 HOLIDAY eCARD
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Sea Lions, La Jolla, Ca.
Click on this photo to the left
to see a video that is a
metaphor for the US Congress
during the Trump Administration. |
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PIRANESI PROJECT
A 2002-2003 Rome Prize Fellowship Project: The Piranesi Project
is a photographic project documenting the same views that Giambattista
Piranesi etched and engraved in his famous Vedute di Roma
in the middle of the 18th century. This work explores the
capabilities of digital photography by taking photographs into the
pre-photographic perspective used by Piranesi and other artists of his
period.
CLICK HERE:
to link to this ongoing art project which includes a photographic art exhibition and a film Rome Was! Ruins Eternal. Also there are a series of papers describing this project and examining what it has revealed about the evolution of the use of perspective in artistic compositions in pre-photographic art.
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ALSO: A Short - 4 minute movie from photos taken in Italy:
Pescetti di Trani
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An
Experiment in the use of 18th Century Perspective from the Piranesi Project in the "Building" of a
Photographic Image: BORROMINI'S ST. IVO IN ROME Interior view "built" out of
nine different original photographs (seen below). The dome is in fact only
visible by looking almost straight up.
The photograph was taken in an alcove identical to the one seen opposite with
the door in it.
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(1) Wide View of 1887 High Service Pumping
Station interior showing the main steam engine with the pumps
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CHESTNUT HILL PUMPING STATION
Brookline, Massachusetts
Photographed, February, 2008
The High Service Pumping Station, constructed
in 1887, was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by
Arthur Vinal, City Architect. An 1897-1898 addition was by
Wheelwright & Haven, Architects. Massive pumps inside the
building provided water to newly annexed parts of Boston,
located at higher elevations, and sent water to the Fisher Hill
Reservoir in Brookline. Source:
Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
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MACHU
PICCHU World Heritage Site, PERU
Click on photo to enlargeThis view
is composed of 4 wide angle photographs, so it shows the ring of
mountains and the river that winds around the site that is not visible
in single wide angle photographs.
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SHEIK-LOTF-ALLAH MOSQUE (Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque) (مسجد
شيخ لطف الّله) INTERIOR,
ISFAHAN, IRAN.
Click on photo to enlarge
Source images
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This
image was taken from inside a corner niche that is identical to
the one that is directly opposite. Three photos were used to
build this completed view. This mosque was featured in the
New York Times article on Trump's Targeting of Cultural Sites on January 7, 2020:
Targeting Cultural Sites in War Is Illegal. It’s Also Barbaric.
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The Sultan Ahmed Mosque ("Blue Mosque"), Sultanamet, Istanbul Photographed in 2013
The image on the right shows the twelve photos that were used to construct this view of the Blue Mosque. |
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CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST,
LAVIZZARA, SWITZERLAND
This church was designed by Mario Botta and constructed in 1996
to replace a 17th century church destroyed by an avalanche in 1986.
This image is digitally built from a total of 6 wide angle
photographs. The photographs were taken in July, 2010. I
wish to thank Swiss architect Tom Schacher for taking me to see this
church. This array shows the source
images for the photo-mosaic of the church interior
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PRESIDENTIAL
INAUGURATION OF BARAK OBAMA
Washington DC
Photographed, January 18-20, 2009
CLICK HERE
to go to image collection. |
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