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The world is flat : The photographic image flattens the world. If the focal point is at infinity, it follows that everything the camera records is effectively at the same distance. The world is flat.

The world is flat

A camera is a room : The camera is a room: a box with a hole to let in light. The camera creates rooms: the plane of the image is a wall; the frame adds four more walls. The camera draws a temporary volume in perspective space.

A camera is a room

Quoting out of context : "To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft." -- John Szarkowski
The camera selects things and moves them from their original frame to a new frame, the frame of the image, where we are free to -- indeed, forced to -- read them our own way.

Quoting out of context

Signs and portents : Our texts and our symbols are all around us, so profuse that the camera cannot help but include them. Taken out of context, a sign is like an augury struggling for significance. And the image of the augury becomes another sign.

Signs and portents

Strange spaces : Sometimes so many planes, shadows, and reflections intersect around a viewpoint that a strange, new space is created.

All the world's a stage : ... and the camera provides the fourth wall, the screen through which the audience sees the play.

All the world's a stage

Scratching the surface : The precursors to the photograph were the engraving and the silhouette. At its simplest, the photograph still records "scratches" and figural gestures on an image surface.

Scratching the surface

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Piet Niederhausen is a photographer in the Washington DC area. More about Piet and the Two by Three site.

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