354 Photographers

Maxime Delvaux and Kevin Laloux are two photographers who work in advertising and architectural photography. This project is called Box and uses Diorama's as unsettling sets for real characters. A technique they developed for their advertising work that they seem to have extended to personal projects.

Lori Nix - Diorama

Anatomy Classroom, 2012

Library, 2007

Laundromat at Night, 2008

Lori Nix, a New York photographer makes detailed dioramas at about 1:10 scale and photographs them with a large format camera. There is something uncanny about 1:10, close enough to fool you, strange enough to make you wonder. The artist is primarily interested in Landscape and her work seems to represent architecture that is transforming from inhabited interior to wilderness, the romance of ruin. Good interview here.

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Terminus

Darren Almond is an artist who describes himself as an ex-trainspotter, he is interested in, travel, time, memory and finds reassurance in timetables. His installation Terminus (originally 1999), moves 26 socialist era bus stops from Auschwitz in Poland to a gallery in Berlin. There is something uncanny about external waiting structures placed in an interior, but a poetic way to suggest the experience of waiting in Berlin to travel to Auschwitz. A good video representation of the installation here.

Michael H. Rohde

Michael H. Rohde, a Berlin based photographer, creates these uncanny worm's eye views of domestic interiors. Memories of childhood or unfortuate incidents give us some awareness of these points of view....

Untitled 1969

The following words are from Shomei Tomatsu’s short essay The Man Who Said “I Saw It! I Saw It!” And Passed It By.

A photographer is both a passer by and a dweller. That said, regardless of the condition with which he looks, the process of continuing to look doesn’t change. A photographer cannot cure like a doctor, cannot defend like a lawyer, cannot analyse like a scholar, cannot support like a priest, cannot bring about laughter like a rakugoka (comedian), cannot entertain like a singer, but can merely look. That is good enough. Well, no, that’s all there is. A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stare fixedly, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world. The human who bets on looking - that is a photographer.

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Point Cloud Interiors

Now that laser scanning of buildings can more easily be fed into AutoCad we will probably see something of a change in how we measure/survey and 'see' existing buildings. As the technology moves forward it is possible to build point clouds not just from laser scans but from collections of photographs, Colliseum below. Even Xbox Kinect can be used to scan your living room into 3d.          New Aesthetic?

Actus 3d

Grosmont Church PNG – Image from the registered point cloud data (Aberystwyth University)

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Point cloud from photos

While the usefulness of scanning buildings is clear there is a particular digital/pastoral beauty to landscapes captured this way. As they are often captured from  just one viewpoint their information (like a photograph) is partial and dependent on point of view. The uncontained nature of landscape in this instance more clearly parallels the laser with our own vision, somewhat near-sighted.

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Intergraph

16 Makers

Victorian Peepshow

Crystal Palace

Thames Tunnel

During the Great Exhibition of 1851 souvenirs of London sites were made as folding peepshows. Originally such toys had been made in the 18th Century but were only mass produced and became collected in the mid 19th Century. I found these examples at the Science Museum in London.