What Is... Photosculpture?Photosculpture (photo + sculpture), etymologically, is the combination of photographs and sculpture. In an early nineteenth century Webster’s Dictionary (published 1913) definition, it was simply defined as:
A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition.
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What Is a Photosculpture? Explaining Art's New Hybrid Obsession.
By Ian Wallace
There's a slight sense of urgency underlying the many exhibitions that have recently popped up exploring the historical phenomenon, and of-the-moment utility, of the photography-sculpture hybrid as an art form. And it's not entirely surprising that the art world is actively revisiting the physical manifestations of photography at a time when hardly anyone prints photos out anymore—why waste the paper?—prefering to store their images on social media and the cloud. Once upon a time, of course, a photograph was more than bits of digital information; it had to be physically made by hand, and, because of that fact, a photograph had an inherent physicality it now lacks. Now this aspect of the medium's history is suddenly of interest for younger artists working from the perspective of digital technology today.
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Form and the Photograph: Bodily Dimensions
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