The Sun. It’s an essential part of our everyday lives and of our modern image-making technologies that it often goes unnoticed–or becomes an unexamined cliché. To coincide with The Sun Placed in the Abyss exhibition, we challenged photographers to respond Read More…
Into the Light Photo Hunt Challenge
Noted British Landscape painter Joseph Turner was a devotee of sun-staring or sun-gazing, which involves staring with the naked eye directly at the sun. Scientists had previously used the camera obscura to protect against the blinding brightness of the sun. Read More…
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Photography and the Sun
“What is the sun?” inquires Francis Ponge in the introduction to his poem Le Soleil placé en abîme, translated into English as The Sun Placed in the Abyss. Of course, Ponge already knew, like we do, that the sun is Read More…
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