Section 03

From the Photograph

An image already flat, already chosen. The drawer for work made from an image that had already flattened, cropped and chosen the animal before the artist arrived, and for the styles that inheritance produced.

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In this drawer

Small finch takes flight with wings spread wide over a snowy hillside

The Frozen Wing: Shutter Speed as a Style

A wing stopped at a thousandth of a second is a shape no eye has ever seen. How photographic freezing entered painting, why it looks wrong to some viewers and right to others, and what it displaced.

From the Photograph
7 min read
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Already Flat, Already Chosen

A photograph has made the compositional decisions before the artist arrives — lens, crop, focal compression, moment. What it costs to inherit them.

From the Photograph
3 min read
Standard read

When the Camera Took the Identification Job

Once a photograph could identify a species, illustration had to justify itself differently. The reorientation from record to interpretation.

From the Photograph
4 min read
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Photographer editing wedding photos on a laptop using a graphics tablet and pen

Using Reference Without Being Used by It

The working difference between an artist who reads photographs and one who copies them, described through what shows up in the finished picture.

From the Photograph
3 min read
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