FilmAnalysis · 照片背后的故事

门牌号成了画廊名

从照片出发,读一段摄影史。故事和照片之间只是阅读上的联想,不代表照片的作者、相机或实际用的胶卷。

1905 · 摄影史

1905 年 11 月,斯蒂格利茨在纽约第五大道 291 号开了一家小画廊,正式名称是「摄影分离派小画廊」。人们后来干脆叫它「291」。

画廊的房间是斯泰肯帮忙找到并布置的。照片在这里像绘画一样装框挂上墙,有了和观众见面的固定地方。

不妨试试

给三张照片找一小块墙面,试着改变它们之间的距离和挂的高度。想想哪两张放在一起,会让人多看一会儿。怎么展示,也是摄影的一部分。

「不妨试试」是编辑设计的练习,不是史实。

资料出处

接着读

一张底片,印出许多张照片

晒在阳光下的盐纸照片

蓝晒:铁盐里的蓝色

故事卡与徽章分开收藏。为照片评分仍按原有规则收集徽章。

FilmAnalysis · Stories behind the frame

An address becomes a gallery

Read a little photographic history. These connections suggest ways to look; they say nothing about authorship, cameras or the physical film stock.

1905 · History

In November 1905 Alfred Stieglitz opened a small gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York, formally the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession. People soon simply called it 291.

Edward Steichen helped find and design the rooms. Photographs were framed and hung there as paintings were, and photography had a regular place to meet its audience.

Try this

Find a small piece of wall for three prints. Change the spacing between them and the height they hang at. Notice which two, side by side, make you look longer. How you show pictures is part of photography.

"Try this" is an exercise written by the editors, not history.

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