The novelty of a time where the most common photographic side effects (depth of field, motion blur, flash) effect rareness, and where even just the landscape format makes nostalgic, is remarkable. As its descent from natural vision means it is not born artificial, the landscape format has long ranked a degree of difficulty above the portrait format, which is art-ificial even before my intervention. But if a generation longs not for abstraction but for connectedness to the world, then it is the landscape format which speaks to it all by itself. (All the more so since the landscape format has simply grown rare).
Landscape format, etc.
Landscape format, etc.
The novelty of a time where the most common photographic side effects (depth of field, motion blur, flash) effect rareness, and where even just the landscape format makes nostalgic, is remarkable. As its descent from natural vision means it is not born artificial, the landscape format has long ranked a degree of difficulty above the portrait format, which is art-ificial even before my intervention. But if a generation longs not for abstraction but for connectedness to the world, then it is the landscape format which speaks to it all by itself. (All the more so since the landscape format has simply grown rare).