Personal
syntax
Many
photographers often use an aspect of this syntax as a personal
signature to their work or for a series of works, much the same
way a painter might use a certain palette of colours, scale or
apply paint in a certain style.
For
the continuing series of Summer Solstice works ( 1988 -) I developed
the use of a square format shot on a diagonal as a stylistic
means of relating each series.
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So when
we talk about the syntax of photography we mean:
*characteristics
of the medium that are selected or enhanced to construct an image to have
a certain aesthetic or look a certain way
* the characteristics
of the medium that have certain predicable effects on a general audience
* or the
subtleties that might lie embedded in the image as symbols for a more
sophisticated informed audience
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