Interesting article, but I just need to point out that the very well done header photograph is clearly inspired by this classic one. Still very cool, and yeah good article. I’m scared
I don’t know if I could call it hyperrealistic, as the colors are the colors. Maybe the aspect of seeing it all at one time vs. at ground level in the aisle is the overload. But it’s the same message that parts of the film Koyaanisqatsi showed, consumerism at scale is out of control. I had a science teacher in high school get a copy of that movie after it came out and show it to us, and so many scenes of everyday things, but shown differently, in their entirety, really made me wonder wtf. I don’t think it hit many of the others the same way, but I got the point.
I don’t know if I could call it hyperrealistic
Is this a reference to the article I linked? Sorry I didn’t reread the whole thing, so not sure what you’re commenting on
Yes, the wiki had a quote from an art museum that I suppose had showed the photo, saying “The spectacle of consumerism appears composed in an organized, rigorous, formal fashion. The presented image is hyperreal. While it is rooted in reality, it is somehow more than real; it is familiar and yet there is no physical space quite like it. By portraying such heightened constructions of our shared existence — from the dollar store to the soccer field to the sprawling cityscape — Gursky’s photographs act as symbols of contemporary life.”
I don’t know if the colors are enhanced in any way, which would then make it hyperreal. They seem to be what you’d see normally, just all at once.
They seem to be what you’d see normally, just all at once.
I mean it’s just one person’s opinion but it makes sense to me. By letting you take in the whole scene at once without any dimensionality you see a department store in way that is, while real, not something you could see with the naked eye. Hyper like a hypercube?
But I see your perspective too ofc, that if no part of the image visually boosted then you could say you’ve seen something like it, ever if you haven’t seen something the entire thing.
Thanks for snipping the quote! I do have a weakness for this kind of artsy fartsy stuff
Pretty sure I used that photo on the cover of a chemistry lab report in school twenty years ago
It might be based off the image you used, according to the image source: high-angle photography of grocery display gondola
This is an aerial shot of the groceries section of the Fred Meyer superstore in Redmond, WA. I took this picture while on vacation in the Pacific northwest. I had seen a similar picture of a Fred Meyer store in Portland, OR and hear that this store had a publicly accessible vantage for taking an aerial photograph. I took the shot in HDR mode and used Photomatix to produce the finished image. Fred Meyer, Redmond, United States Published on January 11, 2018 Free to use under the Unsplash License
