Jan Dibbets
"Every photograph is a lie. It doesn't represent anything. Therefore it is both real and abstract. Photography is very easy and very complicated at the same time. It's tricky and in this trick the fascination lies."
inspiration
I like how he experiments with the purpose of the camera and how manipulating it's use can result in these realistic images with abstract presentations. They're manipulations of scenery, so what the viewer is seeing is what he plans on you seeing not what's actually there.
CONTACT SHEETS.
The main theme within Jan Dibbets work is the repetition of the images displayed in a grid format. Each image is the same with slightly different presentations. Through out this whole piece the frame never changes creating this very formal impression. However each image is ever changing due to the inclusion of time.
Annotations.
Another artist I decided to look at is Hsieh. He does many year long projects, in this particular project he took a photo of himself every hour of everyday for a year as he punched into a time clock 8,627 times. I like how he documented himself slowly changing over the year, for example his hair gradually growing. Even though Hsien sees one year as a small amount of time it's enough time to drastically change as a person.
"One year to me is just a small section of life. For most humans, one year is a long time so much happens. But for the universe, it's very temporary."
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further work.
After viewing Hsieh's slowly changing documentary style work and Jan Dibbets abstract presentations I decided to move away from grid work and focus more on the time element of photography . For each of these photographs I set up my camera in one position and took multiple photos, over different periods of time, to document the changes in landscape. I decided to take each shot every minuet for 6 minuets.
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2 minuets, 06 seconds
2 minuets, 59 seconds
4 minuets, 03 seconds
5 minuets, 10 seconds
1 minuets, 02 seconds
6minuets, 00 seconds
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1 minuets, 07 seconds
2 minuets, 04 seconds
3 minuets, 11seconds
4 minuets, 6 seconds
4 minuets, 52 seconds
6 minuets, 12 seconds
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0 minuets, 58 seconds
2 minuets, 02 seconds
3 minuets, 07seconds
4 minuets, 05 seconds
4 minuets, 56 seconds
6 minuets, 8 seconds
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
For these developments, I layered several pictures to demonstrate how quickly things can change, and how an image might be genuine for a split second before swiftly becoming a farce due to the city's ever-changing landscape.
