VIEW IN MY ROOM
Composition 001, Platonic Views: "Seascape 1" - Limited Edition of 11 Photograph
Christopher Cristóbal Newberry Retana
United Kingdom
Photography, Metal on Aluminium
Size: 36 W x 22.5 H x 1 D in
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This was the first photograph I transformed into a "Platonic View", where forms and colours are altered to what I want them to be, rather than what they actually are. It reflects the "Post-Truth" world we live in. These are three perfect rectangles with perfect symmetry running horizontally, with the "horizon" exactly in the middle. This cannot exist in reality, but the picture appears to be 'real' at first glance. Something similar happens with 'fake information': it seems plausible at first, until one looks at it more closely.
Original Created:2009
Subjects:Seascape
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Photography:Metal on Aluminium
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:11
Size:36 W x 22.5 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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He has an obsessive interest in disentangling truth from "alternative truth" in the ‘post-truth’world. Christopher Cristóbal was born in Mexico City on 15.11.51 – a palindrome. He travelled to Europe on a one-way air ticket, hitchhiking for several months and winding up in London He has directed documentaries and educational television programmes and worked as a professional photographer. He is author of two books on architecture and sociall history: "Look Up! Winchester" and "Look Up! Salisbury". He has come to regard himself as an image creator, using the camera to record reality and transforming it into Platonic views. His images are impossible – however much some may resemble reality (see his essay, "True Colours" at his website: www.christophernewberry.com).
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