IdleRich
IdleRich
I do find this fascinating. There are a number of artists (obviously) who were around when cameras started becoming easily available to the general public and I've noticed that whoever they are, even those that you might think of as fairly conservative or traditional, they almost immediately start fucking with the thing, doing double-exposures and putting the film in wrong or whatever to see what happened. I've seen quite a few bits and bobs exhibited as curios in a side room when you have a retrospective of some guy's career. To me it shows how endlessly inventive many artists were in that I'm sure such a thing would have never occurred to me in years (or not deliberately) but anyone good is into it in a few seconds. I believe in fact Munch may have been trying to recreate the effect of an injured eye that he had sustained or perhaps that is someone else, whatever.that bit when Munch started fucking with the first camera he owned and created art.