{"id":653,"date":"2020-10-15T21:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T21:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horatiusava.com\/2020\/10\/15\/anthroposcapes\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:24:54","slug":"anthroposcapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/anthroposcapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Choreographed Encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">When observing groups of people in painting, each protagonist is clearly visible, each appears to be in a well-considered, choreographed position that comes together optimally within the overall composition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Can street photography, without influencing the people who happen to move through the frame, show each individual from a favorable or interesting perspective? Can multiple people be shown in an aesthetically advantageous configuration? How can one of photography&#8217;s greatest limitations\u2014capturing only a single moment\u2014be transcended? These questions led me to this project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">A single image in this series is not created from a single photograph, but from many, often hundreds of photographs. From this photographic raw material, the final image emerges through digital collage. I often provide clues in the image to this process, for example by having a person appear twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The actual goal of this process is to show people more clearly, as they are in everyday life. And last but not least, the background is also important to me: it should show the protagonists in the image within one of their everyday environments, an environment that reflects contemporary times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When observing groups of people in painting, each protagonist is clearly visible, each appears to be in a well-considered, choreographed position that comes together optimally within the overall composition. Can street photography, without influencing the people who happen to move through the frame, show each individual from a favorable or interesting perspective? Can multiple people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unkategorisiert-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horatiusava.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}