Monday, 5 May 2014

The idea of Ellipsis is a narrative device and a basic idea in film editing. It concerns the leaving out of  selection of story which is either concealed for a narrative purpose or taken out so that the audience that participate with the telling of the story. 

Aristotle writes this quote about Tragedy, but I believe it still applies here:
“The structural union of the parts being such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference, is not an organic part of the whole” (Poetics 8)

In my photos this idea of Ellipsis is really important to me,  the sense of space and wonder. I need the audience to interpret what they can, for without the audience my photos would be deemed meaningless. All photography needs a viewer, all art needs a viewer. 

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