communication models in portraiture
Portraits can contribute to a story, identify a person, or make sense of presence. Mughal portraits concerned story and identification, not presence. … Read the post communication models in portraiture
presence
Experiencing awareness of other persons, such as in typical communication among friends and family. A primary source of value in communications.
puppet and puppeteer
Alone in bed, her black hair untied across her pillow, she laments the white snow piling up in it. The open-faced puppeteer moves with her, their gestures double, her loneliness is his loneliness. In many forms of puppetry, the puppeteer isn’t visible. In Bunraku, a famous Japanese style of puppetry, three puppeteers visible on stage … Continue reading puppet and puppeteer
rapid rise of commercial photography
Photography was the first mass-market presence technology. A British observer noted in 1857: Portraits, as is evident to any thinking mind, and as photography now proves, belong to that class of facts wanted by numbers who know and care nothing about their value as works of art.[1] Photography provided sense of presence like that of … Continue reading rapid rise of commercial photography
dream broken
I saw this beautiful woman at the Japan Culture + Hyperculture festival at the Kennedy Center. She looked at me, and then…
in focus
A tourist couple asked me to take a picture of them in front of one of D.C.’s sites. Their camera was a Sony Cyber-Shot with face-detection technology. This technology ensures that their faces, which are surely quite familiar to each other, are in focus. The site, which they traveled across the ocean to see, is … Continue reading in focus