The Great Wave combines Le Gray’s technical skill with grandness. At the horizon, the clouds are cut off where they meet the sea. This indicates the join between two separate negatives. The combination of two negatives allowed Le Gray to achieve tonal balance between sea and sky on the final print.

The ongoing body of work consists of staged landscapes made of collaged and montaged colour negatives shot across different locations, merged and transformed through the act of slicing and splicing. The resulting photographs are a conflation, ‘real’ yet virtual and imaginary. The conflation aims to transform a specific place into a space of greater universality.

Both could be described as landscape pictures. What kinds of landscapes do they describe?

Both images show different types of landscapes, one being very simplistic and the other being quite abstract however they both show a seascape

What similarities do you notice about these two pictures?

They both are seascapes.

What differences do you notice?

Dafna Talmor‘s image is very abstract, with images of different seascapes placed together and making a montage idea whereas, even if, Le Grey’s image is made up of two different images, it’s still a lot less abstract that Talmor’s image

What words/phrases best describe each of these landscapes?

Ominous, Cold, Dark. Stormy

In which of these landscapes would you prefer to live? 

Gustav Le Grey’s as the image is more inviting and an actual structure is seen.