Panography

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A gallery shows a solo exhibition “Panography”.

The Panography is a photographic technique in which an image of a plurality of overlapping photographs is assembled. The technique can be applied manually with exposures or with digital images in an image processing program .

Panographies show a wide-angled view that can relate to a viewing angle of up to 360 degrees around the artist. The peculiarity of the panography is the delimitation of automatic stitching : namely that it does not obscure its origin, but that all edges and overlaps remain visible. The panography technique adds the dimension of time to the images. In contrast to the printout of other panoramas, processes can be made visible in that panographies line up image sections in a sequence of photographs.

origin

Analog panography

The British painter and photographer David Hockney was already working on a preliminary stage for panographies in the 1980s . He called his works, which were created between 1982 and 1987, simply “Pictures” or “Joiners”. These were photo collages that he put together from several images of exposed photo prints: For this, Hockney initially used Polaroids lying next to one another (composite Polaroids), later also 35 mm film prints (Photographic Collages). His motifs were often scenes and places from his life, rooms, portraits.

Digital panography

Panography from a medieval tower (Berberana, Spain)

Nowadays, artists can combine panographies with image editing programs. To do this, he loads his digital images into a file and creates a new digital image by virtually moving and rotating.

Based on this idea, software has been programmed for consumers in recent years who can use it - actually contrary to the idea of ​​the single image as a whole - to subsequently take apart their photos and have them given the look of panography.

Etymology of the concept of panography

Since the photographs, put together in a graphic way, resulted in a special and new type of panorama, the German photographer Mareen Fischinger coined the term panography in 2006, which combined the words panorama and graphics . Since then, the term has been used on the Internet and for exhibitions worldwide and is well known. The English-language name of panography is accordingly Panography.

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hockney on Photography: Conversations with Paul Joyce. 1988, ISBN 0-224-02484-1 .
  2. 5magazine, http://5magazine.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/david-hockneys-joiners/ English, 2010.
  3. David Hockney's official website about "Pictures": http://www.hockneypictures.com/
  4. Tutorial: Panographies: Panoramas on Steroids , http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/panographies/ 2006.
  5. Online application : Proudly Presenting Panographs and Puzzles on Picnik. Archived copy ( memento of October 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 2008.
  6. Panography ... Taking panoramas to its limits. Photoshop Creative Magazine, p. 10, issue 17, 2006.