2021_365314 - Oblique Perception
#5063 - 2021 Day 314: After an extremely stimulating chat this morning with Caroline, and in which I cited this book, I thought I'd find an interesting and alternative way to see the cover. It is called "Perception and Imaging - Photography as a Way of Seeing" by John Suler and Richard D. Zakia.
We are apt to see things for how we know them as objects, what they're called and how we use them. And so we photograph 'things' and places. In my courses we aim to take away labels and to see in the raw, as it were, as a child might see, in terms of visual elements. And what I saw when examining the book from different angles was a mix of colours and lines, with white shapes we would understand as words.
The image on the cover might still be discernible and the words readable, but an oblique viewpoint gives a new perspective and by no means the only one. What have you looked at obliquely today?
2021_365314 - Oblique Perception
#5063 - 2021 Day 314: After an extremely stimulating chat this morning with Caroline, and in which I cited this book, I thought I'd find an interesting and alternative way to see the cover. It is called "Perception and Imaging - Photography as a Way of Seeing" by John Suler and Richard D. Zakia.
We are apt to see things for how we know them as objects, what they're called and how we use them. And so we photograph 'things' and places. In my courses we aim to take away labels and to see in the raw, as it were, as a child might see, in terms of visual elements. And what I saw when examining the book from different angles was a mix of colours and lines, with white shapes we would understand as words.
The image on the cover might still be discernible and the words readable, but an oblique viewpoint gives a new perspective and by no means the only one. What have you looked at obliquely today?