Motive Photography
One of my favourite design firms, BERG, recently posted a video on
their blog showing some experiments they carried out to explore product imagery. The first
of their experiments, Swiping Through Cinema, immediately reminded me of the cinemagraphs we
covered previously, while Touching Through Glass reclaims some of the tactility lost with
our current touch screen...
Cinemagraphs
Recently there seems to have been a significant amount of coverage
online about “cinemagraphs”, images which contain a shot sequence of frames,
giving the effect of a still photograph with limited points of repeated movement. The term
cinemagraph is claimed (and trademarked) by Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck “for their
cinematic quality while maintaining at...
Taryn Simon - Tate Shots
Following on from our review of A Living Man Declared Dead and Other
Chapters, a Tate Shots video with Taryn Simon talking about the work.
Taryn Simon - A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters - Tate Modern
At the opposite end of the Tate Modern foyer from the slow moving
single file queue snaking out of the Gerhard Richter exhibition is Taryn Simon’s current
work, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters. Luckily there was no such queue
sonorously working its way through Simon’s work, at each piece people huddled close to
the...
