"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." William Blake
Friday, June 25, 2021
PHOTOGRAPHIC DISCREPANCY
I thought this made for
quite an interesting picture, one that could spark a certain amount of
conversation about what a thing looks like and one's expectation or perception of
it based on a photographic image. Though I posted a photo of this Iga vase by
Kishimoto Kennin quite some time ago I thought it worth revisiting since an
exhibition catalogue featuring the same piece had surfaced and made for some
interesting comparisons and some degree of photographic discrepancy. What is
immediately apparent is how radically different the color scheme is from left
to right and though a photo of a photo, the exhibition picture just lacks any
spark or life where the one on the right has a richness and movement showcasing
the cascading ash as gravity and heat took over during the intensity of the
firing. As I survey the catalogue photo with my older picture, circa 2012, it
is almost as if these are not the same pot, rather one being a distilled ,
diluted version of the real thing where approximation was more than enough when
illustrated. One thing I can tell you having seen the pot in person is that as
different as these two pictures appear, the same can be said when viewing the
pot in hand though that is not always the case where a skilled photographer can
make a lesser pot looks so much more. In the end and to be clear, I am not
trying to disparage the catalogue system and photographer but rather to point
out that you can't always judge a book by its cover or a pot by its photograph.
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