mymodernmet.com: Compared to other artistic media, photography is far more capable of time travel. Its ability to capture our past with such astonishing immediacy is unique, serving as more representational portraits of historic lifestyles. This is why Garry Pycroft is drawn to the medium, and also why he feels compelled to reinvent it.
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This is SOOO cool! At first when I read the article title “hyperlong exposure” I was really confused and thought that maybe someone had found an old film camera that had never been closed so all the film was taking in light for like years. I thought that would be interesting but I assumed that it would have ended with just white film. This article was nothing like what I expected. These images created by this artist are so cool and beautiful. I love looking at the pictures where people take old photos and hold them up so the image continues off the photo into the real world, but this is that on a whole new level. The way that he is able to blend the old and new photographs so seamlessly is breathtaking. I want to see an entire museum that is just his photos because I love them so much.
When I first saw hyper long exposure photos I was very interested in reading this article and I thought it was just going to be like capturing the past few seconds and then the present few seconds in a photo but they meant like past like many years ago which intrigued me so it to me it's more like collaging but incorporating modern photography into that which I think is super cool and the product of this work is really cool to look at it as well but when I read the article title I thought it was completely different thing than what they're actually talking about in this article. The idea of this hyper long exposure is super cool because you're capturing like two vastly different times. and one photo which makes it easy on the human brain and I to understand how these two things existed as different beings if that makes sense depending on what time period you were walking these streets on.
This is very intriguing. I agree with what he says, about how it’s hard to picture these people in old photographs living life. It’s really hard to picture an environment when it’s in sepia tone. I feel like we often think that this is how life must’ve looked for them, very dull and monotone, which is just so not true. I often forget that the vibrancy we see now is how they saw the world around them. Garry Pycroft’s approach in giving them a second life by using current technology to capture how we see life is very effective. I’m very impressed with his alignment when taking the new photos. He makes this look so easy, but it’s clear how much time and effort goes into these. After looking at his portfolio, I love that he has different collections for each place. I wonder what tools he uses to create these and if offers prints of these. Maybe he can make new postcards to sell.
This article reminds me of a photo I saw somewhere in Boston. For the people who didn’t spend an entire year learning the history of Massachusetts and the Boston area specifically, there was this big project in the later half of the 1800s where the city of Boston decided to fill in an entire area of the Bay, an area of the city that is now called Back Bay. They did this using land that came from my hometown, which is the historical reason why my hometown is the end of the commuter rail that goes into Boston. it's really interesting to visit the Back Bay Area, because there are some places that have photographs of that massive construction project, or of the location before it was filled in, and it's a really odd feeling to stand on solid ground in the middle of a city and know that at one point in time you would have been standing in the ocean or in a marsh. There's a couple photos that I can’t help but remember that used similar techniques to the ones used in this article that were really impactful because of that, because of the stark difference between then and now.
I've always thought long exposure photography looks super cool. It was an effect that I thought you would only get from editing and Photoshop and that sort of thing. I love in particular how this photographer is able to capture the locations and edit these photos together in a way that looks so seamless and natural. It honestly reminds me of a movie effect where they're trying to show that the characters are moving backwards or forwards in time with color. Honestly props to the photographer for being able to get the framing for these pictures as correct as they have. That seems difficult to me as someone with no photography experience. The green of the trees in particular always captures my attention first with these photos. It's just so vibrant it draws my eyes to that spot first in most of these photos. If this photographer has the time I think it'd be really interesting to try to take these photos at a different time of year. He could create a summer, fall, winter and spring collection of his own postcards.
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