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(2001)
A
digital video projection based on a photograph of Hawkhurst Church,
Kent by Benjamin Brecknell Turner.
For
this digital video projection installation, video artist Chris Meigh-Andrews
has drawn his inspiration from B.B. Turner's calotype image of Hawkhurst
Church in Kent, photographed in 1852.
This new work, specially commissioned for the Canon Photography
Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is
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effectively
a moving digital photograph; a projected image in continual transformation
across time, moving throughchanging
light conditions whilst exploring the potential of the original
photograph's reflected symmetry.
A
Photographic Truth uses digital video technology to rework the original
photograph's composition, combining elements from different time-frames,
locations, and weather conditions to blend the recent and distant
past with the present, linking contemporary technology with the
new technology of the Victorian era. Projected onto translucent
paper, the subtly shifting digital image also links the two new
photographic exhibitions at the Canon Gallery: Rural England Through
a Victorian Lens: Benjamin Brecknell Turner, and Where Are We? Questions
of Landscape.
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