WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PHOTOGRAPHS THAT ARE WINDOWS AND MIRRORS?
Mirrors and windows are ideas of a binary opposite. ‘…two creative motives…’ [Szarkowski, 1978] that have conspicuous contrasting ideas.
Windows: photos meant to act as a window for the viewer to see something that is primarily factual and external to the photographer’s own sensibility.
Mirrors: Reflection in photography is also known as mirror photography. Its basic premise is capturing an image that also has a reflective surface that is echoing the surrounding scenery.
KEY WORDS
Mirrors: subjective, reflections, visions, psychological, expressions, manipulated, synthetic, personal.
Windows: objective, views, documents, optical, straight, public, real.
BINARY OPPOSITES
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