Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Blog Entry 1

Robert Silvers is one of the developers of the Photomosaic process. Using collections of photographs, he joins them in a pattern to appear as one single large image when viewed from far away. From his website, some of the large images that he often targets are portraits of famous world figures.

Denotatively, it is easy to see how these smaller images create the illusion of one larger one. What is more interesting is examining the subjects of the small images themselves and attempting to understand their connotative relationship with the larger picture. For Princess Diana, we see images of flowers, symbolic of beauty and grace. For Jackie Kennedy, there are images of her husband John, connoting her devotion to him and her struggle after his death. For Pope John Paul II, we see images of Vatican City, representative of the Pope's many years of leadership and commitment to his religion.


Diana, 1999


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Pope


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Double Jackie, 2009


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Source:
http://photomosaic.com/portfolio_portrait.html
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2 comments:

  1. sherryamorJanuary 13, 2011 at 11:13 PM

    Hi Aaron, Just working on my late Blog#1 project, and was unable to send you a message via the follower, not sure why. SherryFarris2001@yahoo.com

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  2. stevenjamesFebruary 14, 2011 at 7:53 AM

    That's insane. I think the connotation implications could be huge depending on whether one took time to work through all the smaller images. I actually feel like this represents what we've been doing in a way as well--working with many images to crystallize our larger process.

    Looks good!

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