As
the moving lens slides along the surface of one of Matson's
tulips, it is able to view the flower from all sides;
her floral pictures are so intense that looking at them,
you almost get the feeling that you are able to peer around
the flowers themselves. Another advantage: the distortion
that a single lens inevitably creates disappears—details
at the corners of these pictures are as sharp and clear
as those at the center. [continue...]
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FLOWERS
By
Katinka Matson
INTRODUCTION
BY KEVIN KELLY
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When
I saw Matson's images I was blown away. Erase from your mind any
notion of pixels or any grainy artifact of previous digitalization
gear. Instead imagine a painter who could, like Vermeer, capture
the quality of light that a camera can, but with the color of
paints. That is what a scanner gives you. Now imagine a gifted
artist like Matson exploring what the world looks like when it
can only see two inches in front of its eye, but with infinite
detail! In her flowers one can see every microscopic dew drop,
leaf vein, and particle of pollen—in satisfying rich pigmented
color...
— From
the Introduction By Kevin Kelly |
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Copyright
© 2002 by Katinka
Matson
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