By O.R. CROY
2 used and new from $5.49
First tagged by L. Maupin "drop-dead-books"
Customer tags: perspective distortion, macrophotograph, graphic, cropping, polarizing screen, camera lens, animate, 3-d design, olarizing filter, positive transparency, photomicrograph, photolith
Review & Description
The original scene before the camera is to Professor Croy rather like the bare canvas to the artist. He regards it as something to be worked on and transformed. Like the artist, he may use brush or knife in the process, but for the most part, he relies on photographic methods proper. He copies and re-copies, cropping and rearranging the subject, producing intermediate negatives and positives, eliminating tones, adding screens and tints. Solarizations, tone separation , bas relief and the many other techniques that others use for their own sake are to Croy, tools to be used for definite pourposes. He knows what he wants before he picks up the tool He does not solarize just to see what effect he will get or eliminates tones because it happens to be a fashionable gimmick Out of straightforward porttrait he produces a depersonalized timeless portrait of a type from two seperate images of drilling soldiers he produces a satirical caricature of a whole race. He turns a piece of ancient statuary into a dreamlike living figure and a minute dead insect into a huge and threatening monster. His inventive powers are limitless Read more
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