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Excellent Gary, the sprocket holes and colours there match the subject perfectly. 

 

A rather distinctive sculpture in Milan

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Interference rings complimentary

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Wow look at those colours and grain! How did you achieve this? Like Color Implosion on Velvia steroids.

 

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Late to the party, just to pile on a few ideas and echo some already made by the astute crew.

 

I have to hopscotch some ideas: Diptych and more.

 

Cut to the chase, yes, it does make a difference, image order.

 

Emblematic thinking is central to diptych architecture.

 

It starts, all things being equal, but they are not; stasis is a myth. Each breath brings us closer to death.

 

Ralph Gibson says concerning the diptych in “Refractions: Thoughts on Aesthetics and Photography” that "the act of pairing photographs on a page or a wall is crucial to how they will be seen. The images reverberate infinitely back and forth creating a hall of mirrors in the mind.“ Definitely, Gibson’s poetic take on the effect of a photograph diptych. Keenly aware of the recto and the verso, the right and left, of pages in the layout of his books, his images are sometimes arranged to provide the effect of a diptych.

 

There is, of course, much more to consider in the landscape of diptychs and triptychs and polyptychs.

 

In “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” Borges his character, Menard, writes a passage of the Quixote that is exactly the same as a passage written by Cervantes. Menard’s argument is that his passage is the more genuine since Cervantes can only draw from his contemporary world whereas Menard takes into account the intervening centuries, making him the more authentic and genuine author. Here we have what is in essence a literary diptych, two identical passages that we are to read as being the same but different.

 

Repetition: Andy Warhol and Samuel Beckett. Baudrillard’s "The System of Objects" and “Simulacra and Simulacrum.“ Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” and the reverse of time order of Nolan’s “Memento.”

 

Michael Snow’s minimalist short film “Wavelength” is the single shot 45-minute slow zoom from one end of a room to the other, ending on a photograph of an open ocean that fills the frame. In actuality, Snow accomplished the illusion with two takes, probably more, splicing “Wavelength“ roughly in the middle. Analogue, analogue—this film embraces and reminds viewers it is film.

 

Surveillance renders a product, evidence, but it is also a process that reveals a process. Antonioni and “Blow Up.” Now, in a post 9/11 world, surveillance has an entirely different connotations: paranoia, power, safety, panopticon, paralysis, punishment, imprisonment, control, theft, data collection, appropriation, silence, tracking, guilt, psychosis, invasion, and the list goes on.

 

Phil’s two photographs document the product of an observer, which posits a whole menu of possibilities, the least of which is motivation and purpose. Simultaneity. The mental landscape, interpretive dialogue, is initiated by the two images, yet it is neither one nor the other but altogether different.

 

The photographs together demonstrate the difficulty in discovering or creating meaning. They erect a scaffolding that simultaneously constructs and deconstructs. To further open the rhetorical structure, either/or propositions must include "and.“ This leads to a multiplicity of blueprints, metaphoric readings of the association, multiple interpretations.

 

Emblematic thinking and Alciatti’s Emblematum liber (1531). Peter M. Daly in “Literature in the Light of the Emblem” points out that “Emblematic thinking is controlled associative thinking; within a poetic context an emblem can lay down a line of meaning along which several associations may be plotted.“

http://bq.blakearchive.org/15.3.salemi

 

Note: Rosemary Freeman’s “English Emblem Books”

 

Re: Steve's excellent point: In cinema, motion that moves left to right is positive, the good, and motion that moves right to left is contrarian, the bad. In “The Longest Day,” The American army is moving screen left to right, and the German army is moving screen right to left. In one of the notable snafus, second unit camera filmed sequences with the American army moving screen right to left, which would not cut with a German army because on screen they would never meet in opposition since they were both headed in the same direction, right to left. What the editor ended up doing was flipping the negative, which was possible only because the American white star on the side of the tanks and jeeps could be read from either direction. But, I digress. Forgive typos.

 

Cheers,

Rog

 

Apologies for the zigging and zagging on my iPhone; I'll come back with comments on the images themselves.

 

Thank you Rog for your incredibly wide-ranging thoughts and eclectic examples in regard to the notion of diptyches.

 

"The photographs together demonstrate the difficulty in discovering or creating meaning. They erect a scaffolding that simultaneously constructs and deconstructs. To further open the rhetorical structure, either/or propositions must include "and.“ This leads to a multiplicity of blueprints, metaphoric readings of the association, multiple interpretations." It is incredibly interesting to consider such a simple and basic construct - essentially, two pictures - with a background of historical precedent such as you have elucidated here. It would seem that the apparent simplicity of juxtaposing two images can belie a rather complex cerebral notion - that of a duality of possibility related to a similar, even concurrent, circumstance. At its extreme I guess you may well consider the notion of Schrödinger's Cat *.

 

Just kidding- the dangers of doing five minutes of casual internet research! However, Rog, your thoughts (and pictures) do address directly the creative photographic possibilities of thinking linearly about photographs - that is, what comes next - because something always does come next. If those two pictures create the blank pages for a script that the viewer is able to devise, then that can only serve to expand well beyond the photographer's imagination or intent (unless his/her sole intent is to achieve just that) what the picture pairing (or multiple) can possibly mean. Of course this is more than possible with a single picture, but a pair or more must increase that possibility by orders of magnitude.

 

* Schrödinger himself wrote, when explaining his example, "There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks". Not sure how this is relevant to anything, but there you are.

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A last one of the horseland series. I was hiden it because of the stains. But i still like it, cause of the light  :)


 


 


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