Mark Johnston
Frantiskanska, Bratislava, Slovakia, 11th November 1997, 12.00
About this artwork
In this image two circles of photographs are spliced together on an aluminium base, each row photographed at a different angle. Johnston uses a camera mounted on top of a six-metre pole. He developed the technique in order to photograph Neolithic sites, offering a complete concentric birds-eye viewpoint of their formation. This unusual perspective involves the viewer more intensely in the process of looking.
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artist:Mark Johnston (born 1963) Scottish
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title:Frantiskanska, Bratislava, Slovakia, 11th November 1997, 12.00
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date created:Edition 1/10 1998
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materials:48 gelatin silver prints on aluminium
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measurements:82.00 x 82.00 cm (framed: 95.00 x 94.00 x 2.20 cm)
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by the photographer 1999
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accession number:PGP 255.1
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Mark Johnston
Mark Johnston
Mark Johnston is a Scottish photographer whose preferred method of work is to mount his camera on a long pole and shoot successive sections of city streets or archaeological sites. These aerial views are then montaged onto circular bases, providing bird's eye views of various sites. Although the...
