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Static Motion – Carl Ander

Mar 01, 2018 - Carl Oliver Ander

The series Static Motion is built around a paradox. Photography being a static medium, makes it restricted in depicting actual motion. The motion that the viewer might see in a photograph is all happening in their head. Photography’s ability to freeze a motion is an advantage when for example studying the galloping of a horse. (The Horse in motion, Eadweard Muybridge, 1878). However, photography’s inevitable freezing characteristics, as opposed to video, becomes a problem when the visualization of movement is the primary goal. In the series I’ve played with this limitation of the photographic medium. Is it possible to visualize motion using a static medium?