Stephen Wilkes Captures a Full Day in a Single Image #ArtTuesday
As someone who spent many teenage summers in Coney Island from early morning until the night, this is so beautiful.
via Smithsonian
At first glance, Stephen Wilkes’ photographs look like a single moment in time. It is only upon closer inspection that viewers discover that each of his works is actually the result of shooting thousands of photographs from a stationary position over the course of a day and stitching them together digitally to create one cohesive panorama. The painstaking task of editing all of this information and whittling it down into one image can take months to complete, but the results capture a sense of place that can’t be expressed by a single frame alone.
“I’m interested in creating images that resonate with the way we actually see the world,” Wilkes says. “I’m focused on how the eye sees and the scale in which we see the world. [In my photographs, I try to] create as much depth and peripheral vision as possible, like you’re looking through a window. Technology has given me additional megapixels that allow me to include things that used to be insignificant, making story telling that much deeper and richer.”
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