Photorealism
フォトリアリズム / 1968–1980s / Style / Postwar American Art
Eine Bewegung, die das Foto unverändert in die Malerei überträgt und die Informationsfülle des maschinellen Blicks von Hand nachbildet. Schaufensterspiegelungen, verzerrtes Chrom, das Neon eines Diners werden samt der fotografischen Schärfeverteilung, Körnung und chromatischen Aberration auf der Leinwand fixiert. Gemalt wird nicht das Gesehene, sondern das, was die Kamera daraus gemacht hat.
Spiegelungen und Lichter fotografischen Ursprungs / Die Schärfentiefe eins zu eins gemalt / Kommerzielle Motive der Großstadt / Glatte Oberfläche ohne Pinselspur
Wörterbucheintrag
- Geeignet für
- Product imagery of chrome, glass and liquid that must read as photographed rather than illustrated, where a rendering has to acquire lens behaviour to be believed · Editorial and campaign work about consumer culture, where the gloss on the surface is itself the argument
- Typografie
- A neutral grotesque set small and cold, used as caption rather than headline so the image keeps all the voltage.
- Komposition
- One frontal image cropped so the principal reflection falls at the optical centre, with type confined to a single band at the edge.
- Material
- High-gloss stock or an untextured screen, ink laid perfectly smooth so no substrate grain competes with the photographic grain inside the image.
- Zu vermeiden
- Cleaning up the lens artefacts: polish out the focus fall-off, the grain and the fringing and the picture stops reading as a photograph made by hand, leaving airless illustration.
- Zum Weiterlesen
- Airbrush technique and grid transfer / The presentation at documenta 5 in 1972 / The role of the photograph as an intermediary term