The art of strip photography : making still images with a moving camera / Maarten Vanvolsem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vanvolsem, Maarten.

Series:

Lieven Gevaert series ; v. 11.

Lieven Gevaert series ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic.

Photography--Digital techniques.

Photography.

Physical Description:

212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Photographic images can, apart from their capacity to show, convey an experience, a quality that has seldom been recognized. In this book the artist and photographer Maarten Vanvolsem explains how the strip technique can tell a different story of time and space in photographic images, a story that leads to new expressions and experiences of time and movement. The strip technique itself seems to be neglected in the debate on time and photography, although it has a long history. Its use is widespread and, especially in recent years, more and more artists rediscover the technique.

Based on an historical overview, a knowledge and understanding of the technique, and experiments with the building of cameras, this book will propose a new use of the forgotten art: a use in which the temporal terms 'speed', 'rhythm', and 'pace' are of more value than terms so often associated with photography such as 'freeze', 'split second', or 'capture'. Within the book one can find more then thirty artists using the strip technique for their artistic practice.

A lot of the artwork produced goes beyond traditional photography and the standards set by the photo industry. The research also reveals the extent to which artists use the technique to rediscover the time-based possibilities of the photographic image. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Strip Photography and its Historical Context: A Camera Mechanism (Invention and Re-invention) 9

1.1 Panorama Photography 11

1.2 Photogrammetry 21

1.3 Peripheral Photography 27

1.4 The Photo Finish 31

1.5 Other Fields of Use 38

2 The Strip Technique 41

2.1 Shutter Technique 43

2.2 Film Movement 49

2.3 Exposure 55

3 Photographers Working with the Strip Technique 57

3.1 Photo Finish on Halfway Course 59

3.2 Boosting the Knowledge of the Strip Technique 63

3.3 The Panorama Image as a Time Span 71

3.4 Creative Use of the Strip Exposure 78

3.5 A Moving Camera 83

3.6 Stereo Strip Photography 86

3.7 Great Britain as Breeding Ground 89

3.8 Video Technology and Strip Images 95

4 Experiencing Time in a Still Image 99

4.1 Forgotten Possibilities of Photography and its Technique 99

The Dominance of the Snapshot 101

Perspective and the Renaissance Doctrine (Perspective and Unity of Space and Time) 105

Theory and Technology 110

Strip Images Complicate the Picture 110

De Duve's Space-time Construction 115

4.2 Reading a Non-still Image 118

"Reading" the Image 118

The Image: A Score of Time 125

Perspective 125

Rhythm 127

Sharpness 128

Music Score 130

5 Moving the Camera Towards Another Expression 135

5.1 Shift in Artists' Use of the Strip Technique 135

Non-scientific Use of the Strip Technique 135

Aesthetic Use of the Strip Technique 140

Meta-photographic Use of the Technique 146

5.2 Moving the Camera: Solving the Paradox in Dance Photography 148

The Paradox in Dance Photography 148

Silent Move 152

5.3 The Intrinsic Time of a Work of Art 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212).

ISBN:

9789058678409

9058678407

OCLC:

748778797