Showing posts with label Jean-Claude Lemagny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean-Claude Lemagny. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Expose for the shadows

What properties are more fundamental to a photograph than light and shadow? In his essay, "Is Photography a Plastic Art?", Jean-Claude Lemagny states that "continuous encounters between light and shadow result in new meanings". I came across this essay in an anthology called Poetics of Space edited by Steve Yates.


As you might have intuited, the answer to the question posed in the essay's title is 'yes', with the interplay of shadow and light in photographs serving as the corpus delicti.