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SHADOWS
ON THE
GRASS
: MOVING IMAGES
I have been working with digital photographs of shadow images for about four years now. It started out as a way to include myself in a photograph. I did this deliberately to get away from pictures where the point of view was an all-seeing, all-knowing objective observer, the point of view of most photographs (and films). Soon after my first series, these images took on a life of their own. Now that I had paid attention to my shadow, I noticed it everywhere. Of course, it had always been there, but I just had never focused on it before. Since the first series, I have taken many other self-portrait shadows such as a series against a stucco wall with bright double lights making overlapping, almost cubist shapes. This series for SIGNUM was taken under bright area lights over a lawn (next to an automobile dealership). In previous shadow pictures the outline had been sharp and distinct. With grass as a surface and substance to work with, I thought I could achieve a different, perhaps cruder and surreal effect that evoked more emotion. At times the figure blends with the grass and is on the verge of disappearing. This series is in part an exploration of the figure-ground relationship. Are we figures against a landscape or figures within a landscape? NOTE: Original photos were taken with a Sony FD73 camera and processed in Paint Shop Pro.
Rick Doble has a Masters in Communications, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC, 1975. He has been a professional photographer and photography teacher for 30 years, and has 15 years experience with computers, including programming.He is listed in the original Marquis Who'sWho in America. For four years he has been showing original work on the web, digital art designed exclusively for the Internet. His site now includes over 600 digital images and eight articles about art in the 21st century. Visit
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