“While the intent of photographing a sunset maybe to capture something ephemeral or to assert an individual subjective point of view – the result is quite the opposite – through the technology of our common camera we experience the power of millions of synoptic views, all shared the same way, at the same moment. To claim individual authorship while photographing a sunset is to disengage from this collective practise and therefore negate a large part of why capturing a sunset is so irresistible in the first place.”
Penelope Umbrico in ALEXANDER, 2015: 61
1: Sunset to Sunrise:
Lives Spliced in Time
Sunrise: First Frosts
Abstraction
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