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Blow-Up

Alexandru CRIȘAN

The rediscovery of certain elements can recompose the history of an image, putting it back into a particular category. An image taken with the foreground highlighted can later become, by identifying subtle elements, an image with a different, often more complex story.This is the story of Thomas Hemmings (the stage incarnation of London photographer David Bailey), who rediscovers in accidentally captured shots the details that generate a new interpretation of the subject. Antonioni's character (Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up, 1966) recomposes an event on the basis of the identification of elements subsequently discovered in the background, thus blurring the importance of the foreground. [...] The rediscovery of some elements might recompose an image history repositing it into a distinct category. An image made with accentuated first plan is possible to become later, after subtle elements identification, an image with a totally other story, in most of the cases a more complex one.This is the story of Thomas Hemmings, (scene imaginary character of London origin photographer David Bailey) that rediscovers into the accidentally captured frames the details that generate a new interpretation of the photographed subject. The Antonioni's film character (Michelangelo Antonioni, Blowup, 1966) recomposes an event on the base of elements that are later identified, in the second plan; rebalancing henceforth the importance of first plan. [...]

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