The Non-Realistic Nature of Photography
Further Reasons Why Turner Was Wrong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10272539 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Latto (University of Liverpool), Bernard Harper (University of Liverpool) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 243-247 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/leon.2007.40.3.243 |
| OpenAlex | W2073523523 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The authors discuss the limitations of photography in producing representations that lead to the accurate perception of shapes. In particular, they consider two situations in which the photographic representation, although an accurate reproduction of the geometry of the two-dimensional image in the eye, does not capture the way human vision changes this geometry to produce a three-dimensionally accurate perception. When looking at a photograph, the viewer's uncertainty of the camera-to-subject distance and the fact that, unnaturally, a photograph presents almost exactly the same view of an object to the two eyes result in substantially distorted perceptions. These most commonly result in a perceived flattening and fattening of the 3D shape of the object being photographed
Art · Computer graphics (images) · Computer vision · Flattening · Object (grammar) · Perception · Photography · Physics · Representation (politics) · Subject (documents) · Visual arts · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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