The Art of photography

ChallengingTraditions:OnePicturefromMany

KENJOSEPHSON

PostcardVisit.Stockholm,Swed

ThephotographofaSwedishcastle(above),

withahandcrypticallyholding

upa

picture

postcard

ofthesamecastle,gives
adualviewofthesame

scene
thelargeroneinwinter,thepostcardscenein

summerwiththetreesinleafandthestatuary

unsheltered.Thustwoevents,in
twoseasons,are

representedinoneframe—

andthevieweris

remindedthatbothcastleandpostcardareonly

pictorialrepresentations.

Twophotographsofthesamerockylandscapi

alargerbackgroundphotographinblackan

whiteandasmallercolorphotograph,wei

superimposed.Thephotographer

used

acryh

paintstoblendthetwopicturesandextendth

landscapebeyondtheconventionalphotograph/

borders,remindingtheviewerthatin

space,as

i

time,everyphotograph

isaselection

from

amuc

moreextensivescent