Structure
And
Perspective
Views on pe ‘PERSPECTIVE IS NOT A ‘TRUTH’ BUT A SYSTEM FOR INTERPRETING REALITY’ Paul-Michel Foucault, generally known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic.
Foucalt ity. He
1The the
argued that public space is visually controlled y author-
used the model of the panoptican1 to show how surveillance rules our lives.
Panopticon
English
is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by
philosopher and social theorist
scheme of the design is to allow all
(pan-)
Jeremy Bentham
in the late
18th
century.
inmates of an institution to be observed
The
(-opti-
con) by a single watchman without the inmates being able to tell whether or not they are being watched.
erspective SINGLE POINT PERSPECTIVE An
image has one-point
perspective when it con-
tains only one vanishing point on the horizon line.
TWO POINT PERSPECTIVE An image has two point perspective when it contains two vanishing points on the horizon.
THREE POINT PERSPECTIVE An
image has three
point perspective when it contains
3
vanishing
points.
Experimentation with perspective WE SET OUT TO EXPERIMENT WITH PERSPECTIVE FOR OURSELVES, AND ACTUALLY FORCED PERSPECTIVE IN OUR PHOTOS. TO DO THIS, OBJECTS/PEOPLE ARE PLACED IN A POSITION WHERE THEY MAY SEEM LARGER OR SMALLER THAN WHAT THEY USUALLY ARE. FOR EXAMPLE, WE USED A LEAF TO CREATE A SKIRT SO IT LOOKS LIKE OUR MODEL WAS WEARING IT. TO DO THIS, WE HAD OUR MODEL STAND BACK AND WE PLACED A LEAF IN FRONT OF HER, NEARER THE CAMERA!
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Lauren Sullivan